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adDICTIONARY: of experimental language

adDICTIONARY: of experimental language

Bridgewater, Leanne

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1912211955
ISBN13: 9781912211951
Publisher: Knives Forks And Spoons
Published: Jan 2 2023
Pages: 670
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.66 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In 2013, the poet, artist, and animal-rights activist Leanne Bridgewater (1989-2019) undertook the mammoth task of compiling a personal dictionary (of 12,000 words) to find a new way of sharing her unique and critically engaged view of the world, culture and history. The adDictionary, as it became known, sums up the essence of Leanne's enquiry in its very title: conveying the extent to which the dictionary was not simply about creating new definitions for existing words but also to create new words, often by colliding familiar ones together to form surprising and inventive coinages, for instance, abacsoma - a counted body; paralist - to make a mental list; ubi tubi - to be lost on the underground. Fascinated by dictionaries from a very early age, Leanne was driven by a utopian impulse - held in common with other historically unacknowledged legislators of the word - that is, if things could somehow be named in the right way, injustice, inequality and oppression could be made to vanish overnight as they become suddenly and irrevocably unthinkable because unsayable. As Leanne writes in her Introduction to the adDictionary (subtitled 'of experimental language'):

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