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" Sleeping with the dictionary / "
Harryette Mullen.
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BL
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630346
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Mullen, Harryette Romell.
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Sleeping with the dictionary /\ Harryette Mullen.
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| Series Statement
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New California poetry
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xi, 85 pages ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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0520231422 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780520231429 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0520231430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780520231436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Contents
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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 Statues -- 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 -- Wino Rhino -- Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia -- Xenophobic Nightmare in a Foreign Language -- X-ray Vision -- Zen Acorn -- Zombie Hat
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| Abstract
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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 ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget's seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determined alphabetical arrangement, its pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), and its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play"--Cover.
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Language and languages, Poetry.
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African Americans, Poetry.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.54
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PS3563.U3954S64 2002
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