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  • Apostrophe is a strange, sublime book that grows out of a very smart, very funny poem (originally written by Bill Kennedy in 1993) — a poem that consists of a few hundred non sequiturs, all of which begin with the phrase “You are ….”

    Poetic Machines 02 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • (Apostrophe is for possesive or occasionally abbreviation.

    Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Working out of a subjectivity theory where the discursive self is indicated but never anchored by the linguistic shifter, Jonathan Culler, in his influential essay "Apostrophe," has shown how lyric address of this sort is always a kind of projective self-expression

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • To mark the occasion of what would have been Frank Zappa's 70th birthday next Tuesday, Dweezil and his excellent band will take on "Apostrophe," his father's 1974 album — meaning a revival of "Cosmik Debris," "Stink Foot" and "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" — as well as other tunes by his late father.

    Solos, Ghosts, Blues, Jazz Jim Fusilli 2010

  • Because "Apostrophe" features fusion whiz George Duke, expect keyboardist Chris Norton to have ample opportunity to shine, too.

    Solos, Ghosts, Blues, Jazz Jim Fusilli 2010

  • Culler, "Apostrophe," and Garrett Stewart's essay in this issue of Praxis. close window

    The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

  • I confess I only link to the Snow story because the Gangster appears to be a fan of Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe".

    March 07, 2004 Laban 2004

  • I confess I only link to the Snow story because the Gangster appears to be a fan of Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe".

    Archive 2004-03-07 Laban 2004

  • I confess I only link to the Snow story because the Gangster appears to be a fan of Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe".

    UK Commentators Laban 2004

  • But he was not destined to wear his laurels undisturbed: England, with monstrous perfidy, at once claimed the "Apostrophe" for her favorite son, Martin Farquhar Tupper, and sent up a howl of vindictive abuse from her polluted press against our beloved Perry.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887

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