Download pdf muse drudge ebook full get book direct. This is a collection of three previously published collections. Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by harryette mullen, author of sleeping with the dictionary if you turned down the media. Mullen s is a stunningly lyrical voice, rich and resonant, engaged and engaging. Mullen s book of poems, recyclopedia, manipulates language to convey layered meanings through the use of wordplay. Gaudy gawks at baubles fondle tawdry laces up in garish. Recyclopedia download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Mullen explores the way society views female sexuality through her raunchy puns. Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by harryette mullen, author of sleeping with the dictionary if you turned down the media so i could write a book then you could look me up in your. I am most fond of trimmings, mullen s minipoems using womens clothing as a basis for alliteration, puns, observation and commentary. These prose poems and lyrics bring us into collision with the language of clothing fashion and femininity, advertising and the supermarket, the blues and traditional lyric poetry.
In her previous four collections, harryette mullen s influences have ranged from language poetry to the rhythms and playfulness of the black vernacular. Street, jive, downhome postmod speech meet at the meat market. Harryette mullens fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poets most seductive. She received a penbeyond margins award for her recyclopedia 2006. Trimmings, spermkt, and muse & drudge harryette mullen. These prose poems and lyrics bring us into collision with the language of fashion and femininity, advertising and the supermarket. This essay addresses the poetics of harryette mullen. Harryette mullen is a poet and a professor of english at the university of. Sleeping with the dictionary by harryette mullen paperback. Harryette mullen is professor of english at university of california. She asks her readers to sit inside them and dwell on what it is like to be a female in a male dominant world maxwell lecture, unit 6. Download pdf recyclopedia ebook full get book direct.
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