Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue [Paperback]

The Writers of The Vocabula Review (Author), Robert Hartwell Fiske (Editor), Cover: Fabricate (2008) by Mel Kadel (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2008

Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue, twenty-five of the best essays and twenty-six of the best poems published in The Vocabula Review.

Certainly one of the best collections of essays about the English language available today.

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About the Author

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review, since 1999 an online journal about the English language, and certainly the principal web destination for anyone interested in words and language.

Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: Vocabula Books (June 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977436861
• ISBN-13: 978-0977436866
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,594,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review (www.vocabula.com), since 1999 an online journal about the English language, and certainly the principal web destination for anyone interested in words and language.

He is the author of:

* Silence, Language, & Society: A guide to style and meaning, grace and compassion
* The Dimwit's Dictionary
* The Dictionary of Concise Writing
* The Dictionary of Disagreeable English
* 101 Wordy Phrases
* 101 Foolish Phrases
* 101 Elegant Paragraphs
* Speaking of Silence (or Agnes and Otto)
* The Best Words

He is the editor of:

* Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities
* Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue
* And, with Laura Cherry, Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions

He is the owner of Vocabula Communications Company (www.vocabula.com/VCC.asp), which consists of The Vocabula Review and Vocabula Books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of twenty-eight essays alongside other articles from the Vocabula review, January 7, 2009

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This review is from: Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue (Paperback)

"Vocabula Bound: Our Wrestling, Writhing Tongue" is a collection of twenty-eight essays alongside other articles from the Vocabula review. Discussing language and how it is being morphed today, how it's both declining and making comeback in some areas, the topics discussed range in vastly different discussion. From swearing off swearing to discussing the origins of a vulgar term for the female anatomy, "Vocabula Bound" is strangely intriguing, making grammar and English riveting.

5.0 out of 5 stars Reviews from the Vocabula Books website, January 4, 2009

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Vocabula "Robert Hartwell Fiske" (Rockport, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue (Paperback)

My copy of Vocabula Bound 2 came to-day. I love the title, as though "Vocabula" were the destination of a heroic journey, and I love the subtitle, "Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue". I've been looking up "wrest" and like the association with a tuning fork, which leads back to the notion of "beauty" since tuning an instrument brings harmony. The variety is wonderful. Many of the essays I remember with pleasure on first reading and am happy to have them inside the covers of a very good looking book. It is an honour to be included. -- Anna Jean Mallinson


I received my copy of Vocabula Bound 2. It is so gorgeous! Thank you, thank you, thank you for producing such a useful and beautiful language reader. I hope to use it as a required textbook in a composition course sometime in the next two or three years. -- Pen Pearson