Monthly Archives: December 2024

Two Dictionary Book Reviews

Just out this month, reviews by me of two smart and interesting books about dictionaries: Craig Dworkin’s Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (review in Dictionaries) and Stephen Turton’s Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary 1600-1930 (review in Review of English Studies). These two very different books are both about dictionaries […]

12.12.2024 – 09:39 | By D-AW | Posted in Language and Literature in Society, Lexicography, Poetry | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Yarrowrhyme

I’ve completed the first major revision of my 2018 field guide to Paul Muldoon’s “soundprint” [see original post here]. Now with the title “Yarrowrhyme, or, Paul Muldoon’s Soundprint”, this update adds three new yarrowrhyming poems published since 2018: “Frolic and Detour” (Frolic and Detour), “The Triumph” (Howdie-Skelp) and “Near Izium” (Joy in Service on the […]

11.12.2024 – 13:05 | By D-AW | Posted in Criticism, Digital Humanities, Etymology, Lexicography, Poetry | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)