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

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1
1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English
Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary | 33
2 Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” | 48
3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s
Discrete Series | 77
4 Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark
Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101
5 The Random House Dictionary of the English
Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129
6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American
Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge | 161
Acknowledgments | 185
Notes | 187
Index | 239

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 5 May 2020
      ISBN-13 9780823287987
      978-0823287987
      ISBN-10 082328798X
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      Description

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

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography | 1
      1 Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English
      Language and Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary | 33
      2 Webster’s Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” | 48
      3 The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen’s
      Discrete Series | 77
      4 Webster’s New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark
      Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | 101
      5 The Random House Dictionary of the English
      Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh | 129
      6 Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American
      Slang and Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge | 161
      Acknowledgments | 185
      Notes | 187
      Index | 239

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