In it, she figures poetic creation neither as a romantic epiphany of the poets essential self nor as pure linguistic or procedural play. Sleeping with the dictionary new california poetry, 4 by. Request an exam or desk copy recommend to your library pdf. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen paperback. She is as warm and funny as she is brilliant, and i see those qualities in her poetry, including her collection sleeping with the dictionary 2002, which was a finalist for the national book award. Sleeping with the dictionary by mullen, harryette ebook. The fugitive recyclopedia of harryette mullens writing robin tremblaymcgaw university of california, santa cruz harryette mullen has published five books of original poetry. Her collections of poetry include spermkt 1992, sleeping with the dictionary 2002, recyclopedia 2006, and urban. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the sleeping handsome, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Harryette mullen has published seven poetry books, including. Sleeping with the dictionary has an obvious thememullen has ordered her 57 poems in alphabetical order by title. What i like about the experimental writing group oulipo is its demystification of the creative process, harryette mullen tells barbara henning in from a to z. Before her 2004 fca grant, mullens sleeping with the dictionary 2002 was a finalist for the national book award, the national book critics circle award, and. Her 2002 book of poems, sleeping with the dictionary, was a finalist for the national book award and the.
Word plays well with others harryette mullens sleeping. Weve lived quietly among the stars, knowing money isnt what matters. You give the dictionary personality, one that takes on the full resources of language. The collection was nominated for both the 2002 national book award and the national book critics circle award. All the recent talk about play in language seems academic or anemic when set beside harryette mullens latest work. Jan 26, 2015 to enroll in this free and open online course, go here. Six years after harryette mullen and barbara henning first met at the legendary nuyorican poets cafe, henning proposed she do a postcardformat interview of mullen that would allow for a very small postcard space in which to respond the idea of cards flying through the mail. Harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary robert grotjohn chonnam national university i. Jan 26, 2003 harryette mullens latest, sleeping with the dictionary, however, revisits the traditional role of comedy. Harryette mullen s latest, sleeping with the dictionary, however, revisits the traditional role of comedy. Interviews on sleeping with the dictionary and other works henning, barbara on. Urban tumbleweed by harryette mullen for one year, on her daily walks, poet harryette mullen observed the collision of the natural world with the manmade environs of.
Does the mayor demand a recount of every bullet or does city hall simply neglect the black aldermans district. Harryette mullen has 16 books on goodreads with 12658 ratings. In her menage a trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies. Sleeping with the dictionary is mullen s avantgarde ars poetica, offering a poetics of bothand. Harryette mullen author of sleeping with the dictionary. Harryette mullens latest, sleeping with the dictionary, however, revisits the traditional role of comedy. 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. While mullen s method shares many characteristics with goldsmiths, a crucial difference is her further rhythmical arrangement of the collected pieces into poeticmusical phrases. Harryette mullen,elliptical from sleeping with the dictionary. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen poetry. Harryette mullen is the recipient of the gertrude stein award for innovative poetry. Interviews on sleeping with the dictionary and other works. Harryette mullens fifth poetry collection,sleeping with the dictionary,is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poets most seductive writing partners,rogets thesaurusandthe american heritage dictionary.
Stephen graham jones is the author of sixteen novels, most recently mongrels, six story collections, and some comic books in the works. Harryette mullens fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poets most seductive. Discussion of themes and motifs in harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary. With funds from her 2004 grants to artists award, mullen conducted research on a creative family history project. Feb 22, 2002 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 new california poetry. Arts, visual and performing literature, writing, book. Specifically, she is playing off of the final group in shakespeares 1609 collection of sonnets. On harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary youtube. 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 thesaurusandthe american heritage dictionary.
Sleeping with the dictionary, unlike mullens other collections, has a table of contents, but this device seems less a capitulation to traditional book layout than a way for readers to survey the structure of her book. Harryette mullen reads a selection of poems from her collection urban tumbleweed. Her exploratory, miscegenated aesthetic in sleeping with the dictionary 2002 creates a kind of poethic as theorized by joan retallack. Sleeping with the dictionary is harryette mullens fifth collection of poetry. All the recent talk about play in language seems academic or anemic when set beside harryette mullen s latest work. Appropriating harryette mullen generic pronoun creates. Sleeping with the dictionary isbn 9780520231436 pdf epub.
In your 2002 prose poem sleeping with the dictionary, you write, i beg to dicker with my silvertongued companion the dictionary is not averse to the solitary habits of the curiously wideawake reader. Many of the other poems in sleeping with the dictionary employ similar collection and arrangement techniques. She is professor of english and african american studies at the university of. Her collections of poetry include spermkt 1992, sleeping with the dictionary 2002, recyclopedia 2006, and. To enroll in this free and open online course, go here. Interviews on sleeping with the dictionary and other works by barbara henning introduction by juliana spahr. Sleeping with the dictionary is harryette mullen s fifth collection of poetry. Dive deep into harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in egypt full of loot. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen overdrive.
Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen poetry foundation. Ebook urban tumbleweed as pdf download portable document. This erasure becomes the punning subject of a poem in the book titled why you and i, which begins, who knows why you and i fell off the roster. Entries on a postlanguage poetics in harryette mullens dictionary. A slave could row him toheaven from his crypt in egypt full of loot. Harryette mullens newest collection is urban tumbleweed. Instead of scanning newspaper headlines, i spend the morning reading names of flowers and trees in the botanical garden.
She was born in florence, alabama, grew up in fort worth, texas, graduated from the university of texas at austin and attended graduate school at the university of california, santa cruz. While i maintain that the critiques of identity and erasure that make up my first five plateaus on mullen, i cannot help but feel that they do not adequately address the ways in which she works, in sleeping with the dictionary, to construct a language of the minor to again bring deleuzoguattarian terminology intro. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by having full. Early in her career as a poet, she worked in the artists in schools program sponsored by. While mullens method shares many characteristics with goldsmiths, a crucial difference is her further rhythmical arrangement of the collected pieces into poeticmusical phrases. In her menage a trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while roget seems obsessed with. Her collections of poetry include spermkt 1992, sleeping with the dictionary 2002, recyclopedia 2006, and urban tumbleweed. I beg to dicker with my silvertongued companion, whose lips are ready to read my shining gloss. Harryette mullen writes out of a problematized or mongrelized lineage of black writing. Harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary robert grotjohn academia.
Harryette mullens 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. Harryette mullen is an american poet, short story writer, and literary scholar. Harryette mullens fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian. This acclaimed book by harryette mullen is available at in several formats for your ereader. A quick perusal of the table of contents in harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary 2002 reveals that mullen has left the letters i, u, and y out of her abecedary. Harryette mullen from sleeping with the dictionary, berkeley. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen poem of the month. In her menage a trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that whilerogetseems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, theamerican. Books by harryette mullen author of sleeping with the. With harryette mullens 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. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Access article in pdf word plays well with others harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary.
Conversations on sleeping with the dictionary, the interview that constitutes twothirds of the book. As a prep for an mfa course i was teaching at long island university in the summer of 2009, and as a project i knew i would enjoy working on later. Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by harryette mullen, author of sleeping with the dictionary if you turned down the mediaso i could write a bookthen you could look me upin your. In an interview with daniel kane, mullen makes explicit the poetics she plays with. Harryette mullen was born in florence, alabama, and raised in fort worth, texas. Entries on a postlanguage poetics in harryette mullens. Paul lisicky is the author of the memoirs, the narrow door and famous builder, the novels lawnboy and the burning house, and unbuilt projects, a collection of short prose.
In her menage a trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the american heritage. Read harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary and race in languagewriting, contemporary literature on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. I beg to dicker with my silver tongued companion, whose lips are ready to read my shining gloss. One of my favorite poems from this collection is called dim lady. Early poems 2002, and sleeping with the dictionary 2002.
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