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Subject(s)

• American poetry—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• American poetry—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]
• English language—Lexicography [Browse]
• Poetics [Browse]
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) [Browse]

Series

• Verbal arts. Studies in poetics. [More in this series]
• Fordham scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'Dictionary Poetics' analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. The authors include Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.

Notes

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography
• 1. Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary
• 2. Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A”
• 3. The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s Discrete Series
• 4. Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer
• 5. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh
• 6. Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African- American Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

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ISBN

• 0-8232-9032-8
• 0-8232-8797-1

OCLC

1153995708

Doi

• 10.1515/9780823287970

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