Harryette Mullen, 'Sleeping with the Dictionary' and 'Dim Lady'
from left: Larissa Lai, Maxe Crandall, Julia Bloch
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An in-person reunion of favorite colloquists after a year of planning: Al Filreis met up with Maxe Crandall (traveling from Oakland), Larissa Lai (having flown in from Calgary), and Julia Bloch (who walked five minutes through campus) — in the Arts Café of the Kelly Writers House. They talked about two prose poems in Harryette Mullen’s collection Sleeping with the Dictionary , published by California in 2002. The poems are “Dim Lady ” and the title poem, “Sleeping with the Dictionary .” Our recordings of Mullen’s performance of these two pieces — they can be heard here and here — come from episode #92 (aired in 2005) of Leonard Schwartz’s radio show , Cross Cultural Poetics , an interview/conversation in which Schwartz and Mullen devoted the entire program to Sleeping with the Dictionary .
May 22, 2022
