Sleeping With the Dictionary (New California Poetry, 4)

Rating:
Summary: I love her!
Review: This must be one of my favorite books! Not just of poetry, either. Mullen's use of language is both quirky and genius. Ok, so it's a little much with the long alphabet babble towards the middle...but the book is overwhelmingly filled with insight, revealing language manipulation, and a charming love of language!

Plus, she's really nice! (She replied to my email. Very cool.)

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Fun
Review: Until reading this collection, I was no fan of the prosepoem; now, since having spent many delicious times with this volume, I can no-longer say that. Mullen's works in Sleeping With The Dictionary are frequently fabulously playful, often have wonderful aural effects, and can be an hybrid of the laugh-out-loud funny and point-blank seriousness.

"K was burn at the bend of the ear in the mouth of remember": K was born at the end of the year in the month of December"--Marvelous!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Fun
Review: Until reading this collection, I was no fan of the prosepoem; now, since having spent many delicious times with this volume, I can no-longer say that. Mullen's works in Sleeping With The Dictionary are frequently fabulously playful, often have wonderful aural effects, and can be an hybrid of the laugh-out-loud funny and point-blank seriousness.

"K was burn at the bend of the ear in the mouth of remember": K was born at the end of the year in the month of December"--Marvelous!