Recyclopedia Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge

Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author ofSleeping with the Dictionary if you turned down the media so I could write a book then you could look me up in your voluminous recyclopedia Â--fromMuse & Drudge Recyclopediashows the extraordinary development of Harryette Mullen's career, in her booksTrimmings, S*PeRM**K*T,andMuse & Drudge, all originally published in the 1990s and now available again to new readers. These prose poems and lyrics bring us into collision with the language of fashion and femininity, advertising and the supermarket, the blues and traditional lyric poetry.Recyclopediais a major gathering of work by one of the most exciting and innovative poets writing in America today.

Harryette Mullen teaches in the English department and African American Studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles.