[headline]The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-dayHarryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, featuring Mullen's works from 1981 to the present day. Her Silver-Tongued Companion collects poems from Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary, Urban Tumbleweed, Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems, a sampler of poems from Blues Baby, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullen's works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullen's works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullen's formal innovation, this critical edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullen's poetry and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullen's extraordinary work, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century.[bio]Harryette Mullen is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a recipient of a Stephen Henderson Award, Jackson Poetry Prize, United States Artist Fellowship, Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Katherine Newman Award for Best Essay on Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry.

In 2023 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Georgina Colby is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at University of Westminster. She has published widely in the field of avant-garde writing and feminisms. Her books include Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (2016), and the collections Reading Experimental Writing (2019) and, as co-editor, The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible (2020).