Sleeping with the dictionary

Resource Information

The work Sleeping with the dictionary represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Sleeping with the dictionary

Statement of responsibility

Harryette Mullen

Creator

• Mullen, Harryette Romell

Subject

• African Americans -- Poetry
• Language and languages
• Language and languages -- Poetry
• Poetry
• African Americans

Genre

• Poetry

Language

eng

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

Member of

• New California poetry

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.54

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3563.U3954

LC item number

S64 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

New California poetry