| Vocabula Bound 1 edited by Robert Hartwell Fiske |
This is a Vocabula Book. Vocabula Bound 1 is a collection of twenty-five extraordinary essays about the English language, as well as twenty-six poems, that originally appeared in The Vocabula Review. The essays range in topic from the importance of teaching poetry to the "secret nature" of nicknames to how linguistics killed grammar.
... 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: Creatures of Prometheus (1957) by Martin Barooshian
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About the Editor: Robert Hartwell Fiske Product Details Perfect bound 5 1/4" by 8 1/4" trim 298 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-9774368-5-9
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