Acknowledgements Preface, Lee Ann Brown Introduction: Imagined Readers, Georgina Colby Her Silver-Tongued Companion, Harryette Mullen Part I: Collected Poems 1981-1982 Blues Baby: Early Poems (1981-82) Of Two Minds A Woman is Dreaming Cartoon Men You Who Walked Through the Fire She Landed on the Moon Part II: Poetry Collections Recylopedia (2006) Trimmings (1991) S*PeRM**K*T (1992) Muse & Drudge (1995) Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002) Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary (2013) Part III: Uncollected Poems 2001-2021 Liberation of Ms. Liberty The Fire This Time Poetry for Dummies Summer Salt Unacknowledged Legislator Waving the Flag Sugar Land Curious Strangers Remove Offensive Language Antarctica Broken Glish Devil's Ashtray Immaterial Not Dead Yet "Blue herons persist" Barbaracrostics Y the Or? Part IV: Critical Essays Alan Gilbert, 'The Costs of Style: Harryette Mullen's Blues Baby and Freestyle ' Emily Greenwood, 'On Being Amused: Harryette Mullen's Muse and Drudge ' Solveig Daugaard, 'Collective Readership and Authorial Plenum in Harryette Mullen's Works' Ayesha Ramachandran, 'Recycling Shakespeare: The Question of the Lyric in Harryette Mullen's Sleeping With the Dictionary ' Daniel Kane, ''Native or Not': Harryette Mullen's Tanka Diary ' Contributors Bibliography.