Sleeping with the dictionary 1st edition by harryette mullen and publisher university of california press. Use our file search system, download the ebook for computer, smartphone or online reading. Her exploratory, miscegenated aesthetic in sleeping with the dictionary 2002 creates a kind of poethic as theorized by joan retallack. Her collections of poetry include spermkt 1992, sleeping with the dictionary 2002, recyclopedia 2006, and. The collection was nominated for both the 2002 national book award and the national book critics circle award. Sleeping with the dictionary by mullen, harryette ebook. Many of the other poems in sleeping with the dictionary employ similar collection and arrangement techniques. Harryette mullen 1953 was born in florence, alabama. Harryette mullen writes out of a problematized or mongrelized lineage of black writing. Mullen explains that the alphabetical blahblah is like a baby learning to talk, and.
All the recent talk about play in language seems academic or anemic when set beside harryette mullen s latest work. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen paperback. Mullen s interest in baby talk, which she demonstrates in poems for her nephews included in sleeping with the dictionary, points again to an underlying desire for a democracy of the page but also to the transformative power of such a democracy. Sleeping with the dictionary new california poetry. Download file pdf sleeping with the dictionary analysis o tis william by harryette mullen in sleeping with the dictionary for school use only. Written out of a daily practice of walking, mullens stanzas adapt the traditional japanese tanka, a poetic form suited for recording fleeting impressions, describing environmental transitions, and contemplating the human beings place in the natural world. Harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary robert grotjohn chonnam national university i. List of books and articles about harryette mullen online. Her honors include fellowships from the american academy of poets and the susan b.
Harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary enacts this radical poetic clinamen. On harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary youtube. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen poetry foundation. Harryette mullen s fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poets most seductive writing partners, rogets thesaurus and the american heritage dictionary. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen, 2002. I beg to dicker with my silver tongued companion, whose lips are ready to read my shining gloss.
In stunning detail, mullen and henning discuss the origins of each poem in mullen s highly acclaimed collection sleeping with the dictionary. Harryette mullen has 16 books on goodreads with 12868 ratings. Harryette mullen s fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poets most seductive writing partners, rogets thesaurus. Harryette mullens fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian. Entries on a postlanguage poetics in harryette mullens dictionary. While mullen s method shares many characteristics with goldsmiths, a crucial difference is her further rhythmical arrangement of the collected pieces into poeticmusical phrases. With harryette mullen s dense, layered and playful poems in sleeping with the dictionary, there is often a subtle question, almost present but not quite present, a riddlelike structure that leaves the reader wondering. You should read it over a breakfast of chicken coated with pomegranate juice, crazy hickory farms mustard, and sunflower oil. Harryette mullen, photo by gloria graham, taken during the video taping of addverse, 2005.
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