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- 1From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 49, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWords for Empty and Words for Full. By Bob Hicok. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. $14.95 (pa.) Hicok's poetry is at times breathless, at other times full of silence; it is comfortable in paradox; it...
- 2From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 55, Issue 1)1 Do not love him or your scent will bend inside his skull like heat hiding in folds of cabbage. He will smell you in the coffee that comforts his loud mouth. He will slice you each time he bats that butter on his...
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- 4From:Word Ways (Vol. 48, Issue 2)In his Language on Vacation, Dmitri Borgmann drew attention to what he called 'typewriter words'. Dmitri posed various questions about the longest words which could be typed on the different rows of the typewriter...
- 5From:Ploughshares (Vol. 48, Issue 1)In the end I was not made for this; I have none of the pragmatic agnosticism of those who carry words, words, words, and yet return to themselves with joy and gladness. I am drowning in words, in clauses-- in their...
- 6From:Shakespeare StudiesPeer-ReviewedIS A WORD A THING? It depends, of course, on what is meant by thing. If sensible properties constitute thingness, then a word is certainly a thing. It exists either as a sound to be heard or a mark to be seen. There is...
- 7From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 100, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIN THE PREFACE to his Dictionary of the English Language, in a passage tinged with pathos, Samuel Johnson reflects on the impossibility of his efforts to represent fully the sheer number of terms and their many meanings,...
- 8From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAbstract--English belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is a language that achieves meaning expression through its own form of inflection, focusing on form, and it is one kind of comprehensive language....
- 9From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedElpenor : One of Odysseus' men left behind unwittingly on Circe's island, after he falls of her roof and dies. The first shade to greet Odysseus from the pit, where he begs for a proper burial. Bewildered by the...
- 10From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 55, Issue 1)cut-up poem made of the last words famous artists said before they died am i dying or is this my birthday? anyhow, what was the question? legs that want to sleep cured by too many doctors the fog is rising prepare the...
- 11From:Word Ways (Vol. 44, Issue 3)Funny haha arguably, funny peculiar inarguably. No legit dictionary would touch these newords. So why create them? James Mancuso (eg, 11-124) mostly coins realistic neologisms, like Barbara Wallraff's Word Fugutives ,...
- 12From:ABA Journal (Vol. 104, Issue 4)In an age of declining civility and amplification of offensive speech via social media, it may seem strange, un-American or downright silly for people to be arrested for uttering profane speech. But it happens....
- 13From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo the times you say something just because you like the way it lies on your tongue, or how sometimes you mouth different languages because the way it shapes your lips makes you feel like an artist instead of someone on...
- 14From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWords Within Words Tranquility Having lain awake for hours, she draws in the scents of rain just ended, watches the restless lunar light fingering her faded quilt, thinks of a childhood in Italy, the lakeside trail that...
- 15From:Word Ways (Vol. 41, Issue 3)"Did you know that the phrase 'word order' has a number of hidden secrets?" Susan Thorpe asks. "Firstly, it is a ladder phrase: WOR DOR DER (see Ladder Words WW2002279) Also: the 2 words are straddled by a choice of...
- 16From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI liked real words, Craved them really, Wanted, and desired them, As if they were morsels of rich oysters Roasting on the rusted piece of old tin Lying right on the fire out by the work tables Where we cleaned fish And...
- 17From:Word Ways (Vol. 41, Issue 3)I am a big fan of words that do things no other words do, and I'm happy to hear of a new one discovered by Jeremy Morse. They are the incredible words. They show English in its most perfect form. Borgmann said "All...
- 18From:West Branch (Issue 69) Peer-ReviewedIgnatz, by Monica Youn. Four Way Books, 82 pp., $15.95. Words for Empty and Words for Full, by Bob Hicok. University of Pittsburgh Press, 128 pp., $14.95. All Night Lingo Tango, by Barbara Hamby. University of...
- 19From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedVocabulary is the basis of language, but memorizing new words has always been a hard job for all English learners. This paper was written based on the theories on lexical chunk by Lewis and other scholars, and the...
- 20From:Word Ways (Vol. 46, Issue 1)Persons who grew up in Wisconsin don't always realize the profound yet subtle influence European languages have had on the English currently spoken there. Many of the idioms, colloquialisms and linguistic patterns in...