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Sleeping with the Dictionary: Volume 4 (New California Poetry)

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Condition: Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ... Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Genre: Poetry by individual poets

ISBN: 9780520231436

Publication Year: 2002

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Sleeping with the Dictionary

Item Height: 210mm

Author: Harryette Mullen

Publisher: University of California Press

Topic: Poetry

Item Width: 140mm

Item Weight: 136g

Number of Pages: 104 Pages

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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 m??nage ?? 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 pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky --also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being licked all over by the English tongue, and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a pillow dictionary.

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University of California Press

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9780520231436

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Book Title

Sleeping with the Dictionary

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Harryette Mullen

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Paperback

Language

English

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Poetry

Publication Year

2002

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104 Pages

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210mm

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140mm

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136g

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Harryette Mullen

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New California Poetry

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