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Harryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, collecting Mullen's works from 1981 to the present day. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers a full collection of Mullen's later poetry, with a sampler of poems from her early published work. The volume includes the collections Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary, Urban Tumbleweed, Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems, a sampler of poems from Blues Baby, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullen's works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullen's works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullen's formal innovation, this Critical Edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullen's poetry, and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullen's extraordinary poetry, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface, Lee Ann Brown
Introduction: Imagined Readers, Georgina Colby
Her Silver-Tongued Companion, Harryette Mullen
Part I: Collected Poems 1981-1982
Blues Baby: Early Poems (1981-82)
Of Two Minds
A Woman is Dreaming Cartoon Men
You Who Walked Through the Fire She Landed on the Moon
Part II: Poetry Collections
Recylopedia (2006)
Trimmings (1991)
S*PeRM**K*T (1992)
Muse & Drudge (1995)
Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002)
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary (2013)
Part III: Uncollected Poems 2001-2021
Liberation of Ms. Liberty
The Fire This Time
Poetry for Dummies
Summer Salt
Unacknowledged Legislator
Waving the Flag
Sugar Land
Curious Strangers
Remove Offensive Language
Antarctica
Broken Glish
Devil's Ashtray
Immaterial
Not Dead Yet
"Blue herons persist"
Barbaracrostics
Y the Or?
Part IV: Critical Essays
Alan Gilbert, 'The Costs of Style: Harryette Mullen's Blues Baby and Freestyle'
Emily Greenwood, 'On Being Amused: Harryette Mullen's Muse and Drudge'
Solveig Daugaard, 'Collective Readership and Authorial Plenum in Harryette Mullen's Works'
Ayesha Ramachandran, 'Recycling Shakespeare: The Question of the Lyric in Harryette Mullen's Sleeping With the Dictionary'
Daniel Kane, ''Native or Not': Harryette Mullen's Tanka Diary'
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