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Harryette Mullen

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Harryette Mullen’s fifth collection of poems, Sleeping with the Dictionary, was a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Author of The Tree Tall Woman (1981), Trimmings (1991), S*PeRM**K*T (1992), and Muse & Drudge (1995), Mullen is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.