Sleeping with the Dictionary

Name: Sleeping with the Dictionary
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ISBN: 9780520231436

ISBN-10: 0520231430

ISBN-13: 9780520231436

Edition: 2002

Authors: Harryette Mullen

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Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her meacute;nage agrave; trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Born in Alabama, Harryette Mullen grew up in Texas, and has lived in New Mexico, New York, and California. She currently teaches African American literature, American poetry, and creative writing courses at UCLA.



Acknowledgments


All She Wrote The Anthropic Principle Any Lit Ask Aden


Between Bilingual Instructions Black Nikes Blah-Blah


Bleeding Hearts Bolsa Algodon


Coals to Newcastle, Panama Hats from Ecuador Coo/Slur Daisy Pearl


Denigration Dim Lady Dream Cycle Ectopia Elliptical


European Folk Tale Variant Eurydice


Exploring the Dark Content Fancy Cortex


Free Radicals The Gene for Music


Hitched to a Star Jinglejangle Junk Mail Kamasutra Sutra Kirstenography


The Lunar Lutheran Mantra for a Classless Society, or Mr. Roget's


Neighborhood Music for Homemade Instruments Naked Statues000


Natural Anguish Once Ever After O, 'Tis William


Outside Art Present Tense


Quality of Life Resistance Is Fertile


She Swam On from Sea to Shine Sleeping with the Dictionary


Souvenir from Anywhere Suzuki Method


Swift Tommy Ted Joans at the Cafe Bizarre


Transients Variation on a Theme Park Way Opposite


We Are Not Responsible Why You and I Wino Rhino


Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia Xenophobic


Nightmare in a Foreign Language X-ray Vision


Zen Acorn Zombie Hat