| Vocabula Bound 1 edited by Robert Hartwell Fiske |
This is a Vocabula Book. Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities, twenty-five of the best essays and twenty-six of the best poems published in The Vocabula Review.
... in the right definition of names lies the first use of speech; which is the acquisition of science: and in wrong, or no definitions, lies the first abuse; from which proceed all false and senseless tenets.
Here is the table of contents:
Foreword
PART THE FIRST — OUTBURSTS
Kelly Cannon: Lawyers vs. Language
Steve Cook: Writing Down to Readers
Susan Elkin: Children Deserve Poetry
David Isaacson: Kvetching About Literary Criticism
John Kilgore: Why Teachers Can't Read Poetry
Mark L. Levinson: The Ribbon
Mark L. Levinson: Shark Never
Pen Pearson: One Day Desultorily Reading the American Heritage Dictionary at F I Stumble Upon Farkleberry and ...
Pen Pearson: Sister Margaret's
Brian Taylor: Essential Theatre
Brian Taylor: L'Art Poetique
PART THE SECOND — INSIGHTS
Marylaine Block: Grammar Matters
Tim Buck: The Art of Conversation
Joseph Epstein: Upsizing
David R. Williams: Snobs and Slobs
Valerie Collins: Words of a Feather
Michael J. Sheehan: Nifty Neologisms
Warren Jones: Tongue
Warren Jones: Quiet Fight
Elana Wolff: 1949 Santa Fe Lounge Car
Elana Wolff: Marmara
Barry Spacks: The Placing of a Comma
Barry Spacks: From the Skymind Café
PART THE THIRD — EXPLANATIONS
Tina Bennett-Kastor: Our Democratic Language
Mark Halpern: Why Linguists Are Not to Be Trusted on Language Usage — With Some Afterthoughts
Tracy Lee Simmons: Getting the Words Right
Ken Bresler: Playing the Synonym Game
Julian Burnside: Obscene Words
Peter Corey: How Linguistics Killed Grammar
Orin Hargraves: Who Owns English
jjoan ttaber: Singular They: The Pronoun That Came in from the Cold
Bert Stern: A Little Poem
Bert Stern: Sail Away
Laura Cherry: Cab Ride to Logan
Laura Cherry: Settlement
Ernest Hilbert: A Writer's Life
Ernest Hilbert: Temptation of St. Anthony (Detail of Demons)
PART THE FOURTH — ODDITIES
David Carkeet: Titanic Blunders
Darren Crovitz: The Secret Nature of Nicknames
Richard Lederer: Politicians Incorrect
Rohit Gupta: The Pen Is Mightier Than MSWord
Clark Elder Morrow: Mr. Goldentongue
Christopher Orlet: The Last Words
Fred Moramarco: Takes on Shakes — 6
Fred Moramarco: Takes on Shakes — 17
Sarah Skwire: Church-Going
Sarah Skwire: The Thing with Feathers
Matt Hart: Knock Knock Knock
Matt Hart: Interior Decoration Committee
Lauren Rile Smith: New York
Lauren Rile Smith: Shadow
Credits
Biographical Notes
Cover illustration: Creatures of Prometheus (1957) by Martin Barooshian
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