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Sleeping with the Dictionary

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 menage � 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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Title of ebook: Sleeping with the Dictionary
ISBN: 9780520900806
parent-ISBN: 9780520231436
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 373 kb
Published: 02-2002
Released online for download: 02-01-2002
Author of eBook: Mullen, Harryette Romell

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Acknowledgments.....................................................xi All She Wrote........................................................3 The Anthropic Principle..............................................4 Any Lit..............................................................6 Ask Aden.............................................................8 Between..............................................................9 Bilingual Instructions..............................................10 Black Nikes.........................................................11 Blah-Blah...........................................................12 Bleeding Hearts.....................................................14 Bolsa Algodón.......................................................15 Coals to Newcastle, Panama Hats from Ecuador........................16 Coo/Slur............................................................17 Daisy Pearl.........................................................18 Denigration.........................................................19 Dim Lady............................................................20 Dream Cycle.................... ... read full excerpt from Sleeping with the Dictionary ebook

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