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Books by Harryette Mullen






The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be(1st Edition)
Essays and Interviews (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
by Harryette Mullen, Professor Hank Lazer
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2012 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5713-9, ISBN: 0-8173-5713-0

""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, Harryette Mullen, 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
by Harryette Mullen, Meg Onli, Fred Moten, Morgan Parker, Simone White
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2018 by Institute Of Contemporary Art At University Of Pennsylvania/Futurepoem
ISBN-13: 978-0-88454-143-1, ISBN: 0-88454-143-6

"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
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"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 ..."






Alison Saar
STILL...
by Meg Linton, Harryette Mullen, Barbara Thompson, Alison Saar
Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2012 by Otis College Of Art And Design, Ben Maltz Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-930209-33-9, ISBN: 0-930209-33-8

"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 Harryette Mullen, 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 Harryette Mullen, 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 Harryette Mullen
Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1991 by Tender Buttons Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-927920-02-5, ISBN: 0-927920-02-6

"Book by Mullen, Harryette"






Tree Tall Woman(1st Edition)
by Harryette Mullen
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."






Gathering Ground
A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Camille Thornton Dungy, Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09924-5, ISBN: 0-472-09924-8

"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 ..."






Recyclopedia
Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge
by Harryette Romell Mullen, Harryette Hm Mullen
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-456-5, ISBN: 1-55597-456-2

"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






TENDER OMNIBUS
The First Twenty-Five Years of Tender Buttons Press
by Lee Ann Brown, Katy Bohinc, Harryette Mullen, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Rosmarie Waldrop, Hannah Weiner, Dodie Bellamy, Jennifer Moxley, Laynie Browne, India Radfar, Julie Patton, Truck Darling, Tender Buttons Press
Paperback, 620 Pages, Published 2016 by Tender Buttons Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-927920-14-8, ISBN: 0-927920-14-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(1st Edition)
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Dr. Lauri Ramey, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Pia Deas, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt, Kim Hunter, Geoffrey Jacques, Douglass Kearney, John Keene, Nathaniel Mackey, Dawn Lundy Martin, Mark Mcmorris, Tracie Morris, Harryette Mullen, Mendi Lewis Obadike, G. E. Patterson, Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine, Deborah Richards, Evie Shockley, Giovanni Singleton, Tyrone Williams, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Prof. Fred Moten, T. J. Anderson, Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, University Alabama Press
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2015 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5800-6, ISBN: 0-8173-5800-5

"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 ..."






Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
by Malin Pereira, Cornelius Eady, Cyrus Cassells, Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa
Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3107-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3107-4

"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 ..."






Seriously Funny
Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
by Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, David Bottoms, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Michael Collier, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, B. Fairchild, Beth Fennelly, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, Andrew Hudgins, T. R. Hummer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Caroline Knox, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Kevin Mcfadden, Campbell Mcgrath, Heather Mchugh, Peter Meinke, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Kevin Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Erin Belieu, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Martín Espada, Steve Fellner, Richard García, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Kenneth Koch, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne Mcmahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Frank O'hara, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Charles Harper Webb, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, Professor Adrian Blevins
Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3569-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3569-X

"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 ..."






Seriously Funny(Updated)
Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
by Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, David Bottoms, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Michael Collier, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, B. Fairchild, Beth Fennelly, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Andrew Hudgins, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Caroline Knox, Tony Hoagland, Yusef Komunyakaa, Professor Adrian Blevins, Kevin Mcfadden, Campbell Mcgrath, Heather Mchugh, Peter Meinke, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Charles Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Professor Billy Collins, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Steve Fellner, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Professor Kenneth Koch, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Professor Frank O'hara, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne Mcmahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, T. R. Hummer, Professor Erin Belieu, Professor Mark Halliday, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Alan Shapiro, Kevin Young, Martín Espada, Richard García, Charles Harper Webb, T. Hummer
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3087-7, ISBN: 0-8203-3087-6

"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 ..."






Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"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 Harryette Mullen
85 Pages, Published 2002 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92783-4, ISBN: 0-520-92783-4

"Blah-Blah Ack-ack, aye-aye. Baa baa, Baba, Bambam, Bebe, Berber, Bibi, blah- blah, Bobo, bonbon, booboo, Bora Bora, Boutros Boutros, bye-bye. Caca, cancan , Cece, cha-cha, chichi, choo-choo, chop chop, chow chow, Coco, cocoa, come come, cuckoo. Dada, Dee Dee, Didi, dindin, dodo, doodoo, dumdum, Duran Duran. Fifi, fifty-fifty, foofoo, froufrou. Gaga, Gigi, glug-glug, go-go, goody-goody, googoo, grisgris. Haha, harhar, hear hear, heehe ..."



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