Way Opposite
after Richard Wilbur
Harryette Mullin, “Way Opposite” from Sleeping with the Dictionary. Copyright 2002 by Harryette Mullen. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.
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Poet Harryette Mullen b. 1953
Subjects Religion, The Spiritual, Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics, Mythology & Folklore, Ghosts & the Supernatural
Biography
Harryette Mullen is a poet and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing and African-American literature. Her poetry has been hailed by critics as unique, powerful, and challenging. Elisabeth A. Frost wrote in Contemporary Literature: "Crossing the lines between often isolated aesthetic camps, Harryette Mullen has pioneered her own form of bluesy, disjunctive lyric . . .
Poems by Harryette Mullen
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SUBJECT Religion, The Spiritual, Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics, Mythology & Folklore, Ghosts & the Supernatural
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