| Vocabula Bound 2 edited by Robert Hartwell Fiske |
This is a Vocabula Book. The second volume of Vocabula Bound is a collection of twenty-eight essays about the English language, as well as ten poems, that originally appeared in The Vocabula Review. The essays range in topic from the end of linguistics to the meaning of the term arabber to how bad writing kills.
... no beauty to be had, but in wresting and writhing our own tongue?
Here is the table of contents:
Introduction by Rosemarie Ostler
Introduction by Charles Hodgson
THE ESSAYS
Verónica Albin: Names, Nemeses, Nameses
Edwin Battistella: The Folk Art of Error
Tina Bennett-Kastor: A Battle of Words
Ada Brunstein: Word Economics
Julian Burnside: Mentor
Bill Casselman: A Blunt History of the Word Cunt
Skip Eisiminger: The Consequences of a Word
Joseph Epstein: Cleaning Up My Act
Robert Hartwell Fiske: The Decline of the Dictionary
Adam Freedman: All About Eaves
Amalia Gnanadesikan: Change and Decay: Confessions of a Descriptive Linguist
Donna Gorrell: Conversations with a Copy Editor
Ellen Graf: Linguistic Strategies to Cure Illness
Mark Halpern: The End of Linguistics
Carey Harrison: Millions Dead
Kerr Houston: Breve New World: Thoughts on an Emergent Pidgin
David Isaacson: Code Switching
John Kilgore: Frisking the Governor's Daughter
Richard Lederer: Confessions of a Verbivore
Anna Jean Mallinson: An The A
John McIntyre: Arabber
Kevin Mims: The Adjustor, the Vestige, and the King of Cashews
Clark Elder Morrow: Oscar Wilde Meets the Cartoon Network
Christopher Orlet: Fatal Language Errors
Mark Painter: Life and Death Punctuation
Mark Peters: Can a Warlord Be a Dingbat?
Christopher Ringwald: Bad Writing Kills
Joan Taber: GÏÕÑ þµ ‡€ †¥ ÅE ðÿšŽë [Honk If You're Etruscan]
THE POEMS
Matthew Byrne: You Will Be Mine
Laura Cherry: The Restaurant
Barbara Goldowsky: How to Become a Future Unremembered Poet
Miriam N. Kotzin: Elevated Risk
Pen Pearson: Tradition and the Individual
Jude Roland: Idyll
Peter Swanson: David Niven: A Villanelle
Brian Taylor: Lot's Wife
John Timpane: Overpass
George Witte: At Dusk, the Catbird
Credits
Biographical Notes
Cover: Fabricate (2008) by Mel Kadel
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About the Editor: Robert Hartwell Fiske Product Details Perfect bound 5 1/4" by 8 1/4" trim 240 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-9774368-6-6
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