Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary
Author: Harryette Mullen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2002-02-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0520927834

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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 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."

Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary
Author: Harryette Romell Mullen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780520231429

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Part of the award-winning New California Poetry Series, Sleeping with the Dictionary is the fifth volume of poetry by Harryette Mullen, a well-respected African American poet.

Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary
Author: Harryette Mullen
Publisher: New California Poetry
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2002-02-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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Part of the award-winning New California Poetry Series, Sleeping with the Dictionary is the fifth volume of poetry by Harryette Mullen, a well-respected African American poet.

The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary
Author: Sujata Massey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476703256

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From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India—a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF EFFORT. In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive, decadent world. Eventually, she lands in Calcutta, renames herself Kamala, and creates a new life rich in books and friends. But although success and even love seem within reach, she remains trapped by what she is . . . and is not. As India struggles to throw off imperial rule, Kamala uses her hard-won skills—for secrecy, languages, and reading the unspoken gestures of those around her—to fight for her country’s freedom and her own happiness.

Urban Tumbleweed

Urban Tumbleweed
Author: Harryette Mullen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781555976569

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"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." —Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship Urban tumbleweed, some people call it, discarded plastic bag we see in every city blown down the street with vagrant wind. —from Urban Tumbleweed Urban Tumbleweed is the poet Harryette Mullen's exploration of spaces where the city and the natural world collide. Written out of a daily practice of walking, Mullen's stanzas adapt the traditional Japanese tanka, a poetic form suited for recording fleeting impressions, describing environmental transitions, and contemplating the human being's place in the natural world. But, as she writes in her preface, "What is natural about being human? What to make of a city dweller taking a ‘nature walk' in a public park while listening to a podcast with ear-bud headphones?"

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty
Author: John Sparagana
Publisher: Project Tango: Artists and Wri
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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"Just as his work intervenes in existing images, so, too, do Bal's explorations qualify existing concepts. Together, they have given rise to something wholly new: a one-artist dictionary that simultaneously reenvisions the untapped interactions of images with words and the potential forms of the book itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Revitalization Lexicography

Revitalization Lexicography
Author: Patricia Anderson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816539596

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In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs. Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.

The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary

The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
Author: Nonieqa Ramos
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1541577612

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A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms--complete with gritty characters and outrageous endeavors. With an honesty that's both hilarious and fearsome, slowly Macy reveals why she acts out, why she can't tell her incarcerated father that her mom's cheating on him, and why her best friend needs protection . . . the kind of protection that involves Macy's machete.

Trimmings

Trimmings
Author: Harryette Romell Mullen
Publisher: Tender Buttons Books
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1991
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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Prose poems inspired by Stein's Tender Buttons and informed by current feminist and semiotic theories.

Muse & Drudge

Muse & Drudge
Author: Harryette Romell Mullen
Publisher: Singing Horse Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1995
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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