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Author:

Dworkin, Craig Douglas author.

Title:

Dictionary poetics : toward a radical lexicography / Craig Dworkin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

245 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
English language--Lexicography.
Poetics.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward an Experimental Lexicography -- Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language and Louis Zukofsky's Thanks to the Dictionary -- Webster's Collegiate and Louis Zukofsky's The Oxford English Dictionary and George Oppen's Discrete Series -- Webster's New Collegiate and the Poetry of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer -- The Random House Dictionary of the English Language and the Poetry of Tina Darragh -- Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang and Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Verbal arts: studies in poetics

ISBN:

082328798X
9780823287987
0823287963
9780823287963

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1117904258

LCCN:

2019057431

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)