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if I can't have love

I'll take sunshine

if I'm too plain for champagne

I'll go float on red wine

--Harryette Mullen, Recyclopedia

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If encyclopedia collects general knowledge, the recyclopedia salvages and finds imaginative uses for knowledge. That's what poetry does when it remakes and renews words, images, and ideas, transforming surplus cultural information into something unexpected.

Harryette Mullen

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Harryette Mullen, Recyclopedia. 2006

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Poetry by Harryette Mullen

Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary - 4/5

This was a good choice for my read-a-poem-every-morning-and-night routine, because Harryette Mullen wrote Urban Tumbleweed in a similar fashion, except I believe she did a poem every day which took a year and I read 2 pages every day which took about a month. But this was meditative in the sense of you're supposed to let thoughts come to you without judgement (or so I've heard, I've never meditated). So in that sense, Mullen is truly meditating on the things she depicts every day... from nature to pop culture, true crime to daily life, not judging anything as 'bad' or 'good', but just depicting it as she sees it. This is a worldview that I think I will try to adopt for a change. There are a lot of nature poems in this collection, which made it a fitting replacement now that I've finished my big Mary Oliver book, but there's also a lot about Los Angeles, a city that I don't know much about. It's an effective portrait of LA culture, and some of the more dystopian parts about celebrity culture or technology reminded me of books like Something New Under The Sun by Alexandra Kleeman. It's not that Mullen exaggerates things in this book, but when you put a microscope on something like "Octomom" or Venice Beach, the grotesque is put front-and-center. But maybe this is my bias creeping in, and she's merely depicting Californian culture as part of its environment, something that the title Urban Tumbleweed encapsulates.

Tree Tall Woman - 4/5

This was my favorite of Mullen's collections so far. It's more personal than Urban Tumbleweed, with poems about her own life and culture. It feels more intimate because of this, but still easy and straightforward to understand for a non-poet such as myself. My favorite part of this collection was how it was organized... the links between the poems are there and make sense but it's not about just one thing, going from subject to subject. The pacing is loosely autobiographical too, with the early ones being about her childhood as she grows up alongside the poems to talking about issues of racism and sexism. I wondered why I gravitated back towards her work after disliking Recycolpedia so strongly... this has reminded me why I love Mullen's poetry when it's at its most lyrical. I will though say I didn't like the one about Persephone, just for having an interpretation of the myth that I don't agree with. Also the library copy I borrowed is printed on some gorgeous paper that looks like linen or papyrus, almost woven... I wish I had a copy to keep for myself!

MY GRANDMOTHER

White men opening doors for her was liberation

Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge - 2/5

I'm sorry but I really did not understand this! I liked the other collection from Harryette Mullen I read, Urban Tumbleweed, but all three of the books in this collection were beyond me! I think they were just too poetic, too flowery, and I just didn't understand a single poem. The book is a collection of three other poetry collections, which is important to know. Trimmings is all prose poems about... fashion? Described in a really grotesque detached way, which is kind of cool but I didn't understand the purpose. S*PeRM**K*T is the same, but more broad just about everyday things. It was cool when I could figure out what was being dissected (the one about how we put pesticides out for cockroaches because we know they'll eat us one day, I'll copy it below), but more often than not I just didn't want to put in the effort. Muse and Drudge was stylistically super different, the only one in verse, and the wordplay was more rhymy. They sounded cool but they were possibly even more inscrutable. I feel like this is kind of poetry for other poets. Here's the roach poem. The entire book didn't have titles, so it's on pg 74. 

Kill bugs dead. Redundancy is syntactical overkill. A pinprick of peace at the end of the tunnel of a nightmare night in a roach motel. Their noise infects the dream. In black kitchens they foul the food, walk on our bodies as we sleep over oceans of pirate flags. Skull and crossbones, they crunch like candy. When we die they will eat us, unless we kill them first. Invest in better mousetraps. Take no prisoners on board ship, to rock the boat, to violate our beds with pestilence. We dream the dream of extirpation. Wipe out a species, with God at our side. Annihilate the insects. Sterilize the filthy vermin.

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