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99 Pages·2002·0.3 MB·English
by  Mullen
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Harryette Mullen Sleeping w th th D ct n ry i e i io a University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London Sleeping with the Dictionary NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY Robert Hass EDITED BY Calvin Bedient Brenda Hillman For, by Carol Snow Enola Gay, by Mark Levine Selected Poems, by Fanny Howe Sleeping with the Dictionary, by Harryette Mullen Commons, by Myung Mi Kim The Guns and Flags Project, by Geoffrey G. O’Brien Harryette Mullen Sleeping w th th D ct n ry i e i io a University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London University ofCalifornia Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University ofCalifornia Press, Ltd. London, England © by the Regents ofthe University ofCalifornia Library ofCongress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Mullen, Harryette Romell. Sleeping with the dictionary / Harryette Mullen. p. cm.—(New California poetry ; ) ---(cloth : alk. paper).—---(pbk. : alk. paper) . Language and languages—Poetry. . African Americans—Poetry. I. Title. II. Series. .   '.—dc  Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica                     The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of / .-() (Permanence of Paper). 8 Dark words more radiant than onyx! André Breton This page intentionally left blank Contents 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 21 Ectopia 22 Elliptical 23 European Folk Tale Variant 24 Eurydice 26 Exploring the Dark Content 27 Fancy Cortex 28 Free Radicals 29 The Gene for Music 30 Hitched to a Star 33 Jinglejangle 34 Junk Mail 44 Kamasutra Sutra 45 Kirstenography 46 The Lunar Lutheran 48 Mantra for a Classless Society, or Mr. Roget’s Neighborhood 49 Music for Homemade Instruments 50 Naked Statues 51 Natural Anguish 52 Once Ever After 53 O, ’Tis William 54 Outside Art 56 Present Tense 57 Quality of Life 58 Resistance Is Fertile 60 She Swam On from Sea to Shine 61 Sleeping with the Dictionary 67 Souvenir from Anywhere 68 Suzuki Method 69 Swift Tommy 70 Ted Joans at the Café Bizarre 71 Transients 72 Variation on a Theme Park 75 Way Opposite 76 We Are Not Responsible 77 Why You and I 78 Wino Rhino 79 Wipe That Simile OffYour Aphasia 80 Xenophobic Nightmare in a Foreign Language 81 X-ray Vision 83 Zen Acorn 84 Zombie Hat 85

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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
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