Dictionary poetics : toward a radical lexicography.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Dworkin, Craig Douglas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Series:Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
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Table of 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.