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Harryette Mullen is the author of ''Sleeping with the Dictionary'', a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, as well as numerous other books of poetry, including ''S*PeRM**K*T'', ''Muse & Drudge'', and ''Blues Baby''. She is also the author of the critical study ''Freeing the Soul: Race, Subjectivity and Difference in Slave Narratives''. Mullen is an associate professor of English at UCLA, where she teaches poetry and African-American literature.
Harryette Mullen read for the [[O.B. Hardison Poetry Series]] on December 6, 2004 for the [[Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute]].


Mullen read for the [[O.B. Hardison Poetry Series]] on December 6, 2004 for the [[Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute]].
Mullen is the author of ''Sleeping with the Dictionary'', a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, as well as numerous other books of poetry, including ''S*PeRM**K*T'', ''Muse & Drudge'', and ''Blues Baby''. She is also the author of the critical study ''Freeing the Soul: Race, Subjectivity and Difference in Slave Narratives''. Mullen is an associate professor of English at UCLA, where she teaches poetry and African-American literature.
[[File:Harryette Mullen Dickinson Birthday (2004).jpg|300px|right|thumb|Harryette Mullen.]]


Visit her [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/harryette-mullen Poetry Foundation] page for more information.
Visit her [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/harryette-mullen Poetry Foundation] page for more information.
   
   
===from ''Eurydice''===
===from ''Eurydice''===
Can’t wait to be sprung from shadow  
Can’t wait to be sprung from shadow  


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From ''Sleeping with the Dictionary'' by Harryette Mullen, copyright  © 2004, The Regents of the University of California.
From ''Sleeping with the Dictionary'' by Harryette Mullen, copyright  © 2004, The Regents of the University of California.
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Latest revision as of 14:49, 17 July 2014

Harryette Mullen read for the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series on December 6, 2004 for the Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute.

Mullen is the author of Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, as well as numerous other books of poetry, including S*PeRM**K*T, Muse & Drudge, and Blues Baby. She is also the author of the critical study Freeing the Soul: Race, Subjectivity and Difference in Slave Narratives. Mullen is an associate professor of English at UCLA, where she teaches poetry and African-American literature.

Harryette Mullen.

Visit her Poetry Foundation page for more information.

from Eurydice

Can’t wait to be sprung from shadow

to be known from a hole in the ground.

Scarely silent though often unheard.

Winding, wound. Wounded wind.

She turned, and turns. She opens.

Keep the keys, that devil told her.

Guess the question. Dream the answer.

Tore down almost level.

A silence hardly likely.

Juicy voices. Pour them on.

Music sways her, she concedes,

as darker she goes deeper.

From Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen, copyright © 2004, The Regents of the University of California.