Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse Drudge [Paperback]

Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author ofSleeping 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
-fromMuse & Drudge

Recyclopediashows the extraordinary development of Harryette Mullen's career, in her booksTrimmings, S*PeRM**K*T,andMuse & 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.Recyclopediais a major gathering of work by one of the most exciting and innovative poets writing in America today.

Mullen's is a stunningly lyrical voice, rich and resonant, engaged and engaging. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

In her previous four collections, Harryette Mullen's influences have ranged from language poetry to the rhythms and playfulness of the black vernacular . . . Suffused with both politics and literary theory, Mullen's language refuses to be weighed down by either. The New York Times Book Review

HARRYETTE MULLENteaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author ofSleeping with the Dictionary, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize.