Showing posts with label Ou-X-Po. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ou-X-Po. Show all posts
Thursday, December 03, 2020

The Inscription Over a Modern Gate to Hell

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Philip Terry is a writer who works in the oulipian tradition .  He is the author of a novel, The Book of Bachelors (1995) (which was publ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Poem of the Day: Four Strategic Lines

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Four Strategic Lines There, four strategic lines are anagrams. I'm rearranging letters. A chaos features in the rule, frames reason...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Composition No. 1: a Review (Sort Of)

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In 1962, French author Marc Saporta published a book entitled Composition n° 1 , which was published in English (as Composition No. 1 ) in ...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Poem of the Day: Theme with Two Variations

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The theme, William Wordsworth's classic poem "Daffodils" Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er v...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Gilbert Adair, 1944 - 2011

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Gilbert Adair died two days ago . Adair is, I think, best thought of as a writer in that slightly old-fashioned category, "man of lett...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Xu Bing's Book from the Ground

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I'll get around to the explanation in a minute, but the main thing I wanted to do in this post is to quote the first paragraph of an ava...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

John Hollander's 13-line American Love Affair (Accidental Poetry Month, Part 11)

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Two rec ent posts each referenced to (different) poetry anthologies by John Hollander, who I also knew as the author of the classic work Rh...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Poem of the Day: L. A. Lindon's Dopplegänger

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As a follow-up to yesterday's date-driven discussion of Perec's Palindrome , here is a palindrome of a very different sort: a poem b...
Friday, February 11, 2011

11/02/2011; or, Two Translations of Two Paragraphs of Le Grand Palindrome de Georges Perec

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What dates count as Palindromic dates depends on the dating system you use: in American usage, today is not a Palindrome, but in European...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Quotes About Harry Mathews's Cigarettes (1987)

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Cigarettes .... [I]dentified by the author as his only "purely Oulipian novel." Its method of composition has not be revealed beyo...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Alphabetical Africa Errata: an Updated List

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My previous post on Walter Abish's Alphabetical Africa contained an introduction to the book and its unique constraint, a few remarks ...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Writings of an Oulipian Critic

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[Updated with new links, November, 2011] In the course of my recent investigation of Walter Abish's novel Alphabetical Africa , I came a...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Alphabetical Africa Errata -- With Possible Patches

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Update : Read this post for an introduction to the book, and a few patches to some of the errors; but a more complete table of all known err...
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