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Book Title

Recyclopedia

Subtitle
Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge
Author 1
Harryette Mullen
Body
Recyclopedia shows the extraordinary development of Harryette Mullen's career, in her books Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge, all originally published in the 1990s and now made available again to new readers. These prose poems and lyrics bring us into collision with the language of clothing fashion and femininity, advertising and the supermarket, the blues and traditional lyric poetry. With a new preface by the author, Recyclopedia is a major gathering of work by one of the most exciting and innovative poets writing in America today.

 

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List Price
$18.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-456-5
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
176
Trim Size
Trim Size
6 x 9
Keynote
Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary

About the Author

Harryette  Mullen
Harryette Mullen is the author of eight books of poetry, including Urban Tumbleweed, Recyclopedia, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California–Los Angeles.
 
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Praise

  • “[Harryette Mullen] is a woman at play but refusing to be played, managing to get Sappho and ‘juicy fruit’ into a single poem with out it ending up pastiche or anachronistic.”—Bookforum
  • “Linguistic experiment has rarely sounded so bluesy and cool.”—Publishers Weekly
  • “Mullen’s infectious linguistic torques can entrance readers.”—The Village Voice
  • Recyclopedia invites us to consider [Mullen’s] three books not as successive chapters of a poet’s career but as a simultaneity of language, a replicable and mutable Big Bang of thematic, linguistic, syntactic, and formal combination.”—Boston Review
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