Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary

"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." —Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship

Urban tumbleweed, some people call it,
discarded plastic bag we see in every city
blown down the street with vagrant wind.
—from Urban Tumbleweed

Urban Tumbleweed is the poet Harryette Mullen's exploration of spaces where the city and the natural world collide. Written out ...