Karen Elizabeth Gordon
American writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
What's most exciting, though, is not where a word has been but where it's going, what you will make of it, and you don't have to be a crossword puzzler or word buff ... to amplify your own rich, raucous, sexy, vocabulary, whether you wish to become a polysyllabic jazz conversationalist or to discover how words can take us beyond our meanings, exalting our very existence.
—Karen Elizabeth Gordon, American writer, The Disheveled Dictionary, 1997
Posted on September 12, 2000 at 10:04 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Oh, the sentence! The shuddering, sinuous, piquant, incandescent, delicate, delirious, sulking, strident possibilities of it all!
—Karen Elizabeth Gordon, American writer, Introduction to Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale, 1999
Posted on August 29, 1998 at 10:46 AM
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