Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*perm**k*t, and Muse & Drudge

By Harryette Mullen

Book Overview

Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary

if you turned down the media
so I could write a book
then you could look me up
in your voluminous recyclopedia
-from Muse & Drudge

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 available again to new readers. These prose poems and lyrics bring us into collision with the language of fashion and femininity, advertising and the supermarket, the blues and traditional lyric poetry. Recyclopedia is a major gathering of work by one of the most exciting and innovative poets writing in America today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555974562
• ISBN13: 9781555974565
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

spirals and kinky quatrains

Mullen's three book collection is vertiginous and virtuosic. Her punning and homophonic-connotative cleverness which stacks her poems into multi-valenced spinning tops dizzies one's head with cloudy turbulence. She should be written multiple "wolf tickets" for speeding. If you don't appreciate this book on a first read, please revisit it at a later date.

Recycle this book!!

Share this book with your poet-friends, family, random people you meet on the street. Avant-Garde poetry at its best. This book is changing my life. Harryette Mullen is brilliant and inspiring!