Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen [Hardcover]

Harryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, collecting Mullens works from 1981 to the present day.Her Silver-Tongued Companionoffers a full collection of Mullen's later poetry, with a sampler of poems from her early published work. The volume includes the collectionsRecyclopedia,Sleeping with the Dictionary,Urban Tumbleweed,Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems, a sampler of poems fromBlues Baby, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullens works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullens works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullens formal innovation, this Critical Edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullens poetry, and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely.Her Silver-Tongued Companionoffers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullens extraordinary poetry, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century.USThe first critical edition of Harryette Mullens remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-dayFeatures previously uncollected poemsThe first volume to span the entirety of Mullens oeuvre to dateIncludes five illuminating critical essays that offer key perspectives on Mullens workPositions Harryette Mullen as a leading poet in the field of contemporary avant-garde writingWithHer Silver Tongued Companion, we are gifted the most complete critical edition to date of one of our greatest poets. Never-before-seen unpublished work in conversation with new critical writings and beloved collections is a crucial advancement of scholarship in contemporary poetry. Harryette Mullens work opens a space for infinite readings and readerships, interrogating the notion of a single audience; as she has stated, I write for myself and others. An other is anyone wlSX