Sleeping with the dictionary / Harryette Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullen, Harryette Romell, author.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

University of California Press, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New California poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Poetry.

Language and languages.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Mullen, Harryette Romell (autograph) (Mathews copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 85 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

All She Wrote

The Anthropic Principle

Any Lit

Ask Aden

Between

Bilingual Instructions

Black Nikes

Blah-Blah

Bleeding Hearts

Bolsa Algodón

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 Café 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.

Notes:

"Designer: Nola Burger."

"Text: 11/16 Fournier."

"Cover illustration: Enrique Chagoya, 'Line Essence Color' (1997). Color spit bite aquatint with drypoint, soft ground and hard ground etching ..."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks. "National Book Award Finalist" silver sticker on cover.

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews. Copy has inscription: "For Harry Mathews, with greatest admiration and respect for your work! Harryette Mullen 2011".

ISBN:

0520231422

0520231430

OCLC:

47739575