The Disheveled Dictionary

This little dictionary is filled with thrilling, perplexing, intriguing, fascinating words, all aptly inserted into the most stimulating of sample sentences. Cathryn Pisarski, Editor of Cune Magazine Robert Grudin says "Karen Elizabeth Gordon is eerily sensitive to the creative potential of language. She has birthed a genre and renewed the language." "A valuable reference. . . Gordon’s model sentences conjure up a frothy netherworld of continental intrigue, decadent wit, and educated whimsy." Voice Literary Supplement Laced with erudite insights and eccentric wit, The Disheveled Dictionary is about the music of speech and the sound and sensuality of language, celebrating not only the obscure but also our most beloved and basic words. Excerpts from The Disheveled Dictionary, divagation wandering, straying, going astray; digressing in speech The ventriloquist’s divagations took a turn south, with a lexical jambalaya and an anecdote about his great-aunt Foxie Belle Bloom catching crawdads in the bayou with her torch songs and ululations and her Blond Assassin lacquered nails (from the Emily Dickinson cosmetics collection). redolent Aromatic, scented, giving off fragrance; suggestive, evocative, reminiscent of The musk deer were waxing redolent: rutting season had begun.

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