""The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be "forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women s voices, and the future of poetry.Together, these essays and interviews highlight the impulses and influences that drive Mullen s work as a poet and thinker, and suggest unique pos ..."
Oreo(Reprint) (New Directions Paperbook) by Fran Ross, HarryetteMullen, Danzy Senna Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2322-5, ISBN: 0-8112-2322-1
"A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of ..."
"Speech/Acts brings together new and recent works by a generation of artists influenced by black experimental poetry. Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted. Artists Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, ..."
"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."
"Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, at OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery, August 18 - November 17, 2012. This catalogue documents the solo exhibition by Otis alumna Alison Saar (MFA 1981). Being informed by artistic traditions from the Americas to Africa and beyond and from a mixed racial upbringing, Saar fuses her paradoxical responses to the black and white delineations of political and social forc ..."
Freeing the Soul Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by HarryetteMullen, Albert Gelpi Phd Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49753-4, ISBN: 0-521-49753-1
"Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gend ..."
Freeing the Soul Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by HarryetteMullen, Albert Gelpi Phd Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49751-0, ISBN: 0-521-49751-5
"Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gend ..."
Trimmings by HarryetteMullen Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1991 by Tender Buttons Books ISBN-13: 978-0-927920-02-5, ISBN: 0-927920-02-6
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Tree Tall Woman(1st Edition) by HarryetteMullen Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1981 by Energy Earth Communications, I ISBN-13: 978-0-934004-00-8, ISBN: 0-934004-00-5
"Slim tan colored, large novel size, in vg condition, dedication and author autograph inside front cover = very cool! We ship worldwide from San Francisco bay area."
"Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize. ..."
Urban Tumbleweed(1st Edition) Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette R. Mullen Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2013 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-656-9, ISBN: 1-55597-656-5
""Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." --Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets FellowshipUrban tumbleweed, some people call it,discarded plastic bag we see in every cityblown down the street with vagrant wind. --from Urban TumbleweedUrban Tumbleweed is the poet Harryette Mullen's exploration ..."
"Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary if you turned down the mediaso I could write a bookthen you could look me upin your voluminous recyclopedia--from Muse & DrudgeRecyclopedia 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 ava ..."
Souvenirs of a Shrunken World(1st Edition) (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry) by Holly Iglesias Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2008 by Kore Press ISBN-13: 978-1-888553-26-0, ISBN: 1-888553-26-X
"Poetry. Women's Studies. Introduction by founding editor Lee Ann Brown. Since 1989, Tender Buttons Press has been dedicated to innovative writing. From cut-ups to clairvoyance, the forms championed by Tender Buttons authors have altered the possible and probable of new poetics. TENDER OMNIBUS gathers the first 25 years of Tender Buttons Press in a single volume. The OMNIBUS includes in full: Bernadette Mayer's SONNETS Anne Waldman's ..."
"What I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that ali??lows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by e ..."
"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells pr ..."
"Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the mi ..."
"This is an anthology of irreverence and humor in the hands of our best poets. Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfooler ..."
"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."
New California Poetry Ser. Sleeping with the Dictionary by HarryetteMullen 85 Pages, Published 2002 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92783-4, ISBN: 0-520-92783-4