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Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

April 14, 2013 by Erica Mena

Language is a tricky thing, any translator will tell you. You think you know it, and then you miss. A mis-heard word, a mis-read phrase. Expectations aroused and thwarted. The work of the poet. This book explores with delight, despair, and demanding the slipperiness of the English language in the American idiom. An abcedarium of intentionally misdirected language, it is playful and political. She employs a range of techniques, from the occasional (and recognizable) N+7 to some far subtler slidings around in […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal • Tags: experimental poetry, Harryette Mullen, language poetry, prose poetry, reading journal, Sleeping with the Dictionary

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