Book description
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 menage a trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessedā¦
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āPillow talk of the highest orderā ends one review this book. Out of context that would seem to indicate this is a book about romance. There is romance, I suppose, but it is for the English language itself. Open the book at any point and you are likely to be knocked over by the sheer sounds and textures of words bumping into each otherāliterally and metaphorically. The greatest trick Mullen performsāand there are innumerable tricks here, including anagrams, puns, parodies, borrowed formsāis that she makes poems that are fun to read aloud but also serious in their fun.
From Mark's list on poems for people who donāt usually read them.
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