{"title":"Harryette Mullen","description":"Harryette Mullen is the award-winning author of several poetry collections, including Urban Tumbleweed, Recyclopedia, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist for the National Book Award. She teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"harryette-mullen-her-silver-tongued-companion-reading-poems-by-harryette-mullen-paperback","title":"Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, collecting Mullen's works from 1981 to the present day. \u003ci\u003eHer Silver-Tongued Companion\u003c\/i\u003e offers a full collection of Mullen's later poetry, with a sampler of poems from her early published work. The volume includes the collections \u003ci\u003eRecyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSleeping with the Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUrban Tumbleweed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBroken Glish: Five Prose Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a sampler of poems from \u003ci\u003eBlues Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullen's works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullen's works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullen's formal innovation, this Critical Edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullen's poetry, and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely. \u003ci\u003eHer Silver-Tongued Companion\u003c\/i\u003e offers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullen's extraordinary poetry, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376734011615,"sku":"9781399533355","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/30wXeJHuKY9781399533355.webp?v=1789221826"},{"product_id":"regaining-unconsciousness-poems-paperback","title":"Regaining Unconsciousness: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarryette Mullen is one of contemporary poetry's most influential voices, for her inventive language play, keen wit, formal experimentation, and pointed critique of American culture. In \u003ci\u003eRegaining Unconsciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, her first new collection in twelve years, Mullen confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency: Can we, even still, find our way to our unconscious selves, beyond our capacity to harm, subdue, and consume? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn eleven taut sections written in the eleventh hour of our collective being, these poems address climate change, corporate greed, racist violence, artificial intelligence, the pollution of our oceans, individualism at the cost of mutual wellness, and the consequences of not addressing these pressing issues. Mullen imagines, as we must, our apocalypse, and yet, in an astounding feat, she does so with playfulness and wry referentiality that make these poems surprisingly buoyant, funny, and readable. Our end may be inevitable, Mullen admits, but maybe we begin with gratitude.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378529796319,"sku":"9781644453490","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4ZkelYpNDw9781644453490.webp?v=1789257982"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/harryette-mullen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}