Showing posts with label Oulipo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oulipo. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Which permutation of lines yields the best poem?

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     A fascinating article about poet Jericho Brown (by Allison Glock in Garden and Gun magazine ) reminded me of the vital role of line-...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Playing with permutations of the nouns of a poem

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     Founded in 1960, OULIPO   (short for French: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle ) has been active in the exploration of the effects of...
Monday, February 15, 2016

How Old Is the Rose-Red City?

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     Most of Martin Gardner 's fans are avid puzzler's -- my connection with him is also one of admiration (he was a thoughtful pers...
Monday, August 31, 2015

The answer is NO

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This past weekend I have much enjoyed reading Mathematics:  a novel   by Jacques Roubaud   (Dalkey Archive Press, reprint 2010, translated f...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Martin Gardner collected poems

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     Last week the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) had a special program honoring Martin Gardner (1914-2010); tomorrow (October 21...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

A Vector Space Poem

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     As a Columbia undergraduate, media artist Millie Niss (1973-2009) majored in mathematics and was enrolled in a math PhD program at Bro...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Mathews retells Dowland (with permutations)

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 In my post for 6 September 2013 I presented Oulipian Harry Mathews ' poem "Multiple Choice" -- a poem whose alternative stor...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Mathematical structure and Multiple choice

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     A sonnet repeats the iambic rhythm of the heart beat (da-DUM, da-DUM, . . .) with a line length corresponding to a typical breath (5 he...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Growing lines . . .

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  Maximizing Meaning (maybe) How many syllables will fit on this single line segment? ______________________________________________...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

New poems from old by substitution

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     Just as we get new numbers by substitution of new inputs into old formulas -- such as x² or sinx -- we may get new poems from old ones ...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

A septina ("Safety in Numbers") -- and variations

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Recall that a sestina is a 39 line poem of six 6-line stanzas followed by a 3-line stanza.  The 6-line stanzas have lines that end in the ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Which is the BEST order?

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At Bartleby.com , we find  a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) which says, in part " ... poetry—the best words in their b...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Poetry generators

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Blogger  edde addad  had an undergraduate major in creative writing -- and later earned a PhD in computer science.  He has written about and...
Monday, January 3, 2011

New poems from old -- by permutation

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     One of the founding members of the Oulipo , Jean Lescure (1912-2005), devised categories of permutations of selected words of a poem t...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

New poems from old -- by substitution

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Poet Lee Ann Brown was the featured poet at the November, 2010 Conference on Constrained Poetry  at UNC Ashville; this conference celebrate...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Celebrate Constraints -- Happy Birthday, OULIPO

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Patrick Bahls and Richard Chess of the University of North Carolina at Ashville have organized a " Conference on Constrained Poetry &...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

I miss you, Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner (1914-2010), featured also in my June 6 posting , would have been 96 years old today--October 21, 2010.  All over the world ...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

The Irrational Sonnet -- An Oulipian form

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An irrational sonnet has 14 lines, just as the traditional sonnet, but differs in its stanza-division and rhyme:  there are five stanzas--co...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Snowballs -- growing/shrinking lines

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Today's post explores poetic structures called snowballs  developed by the Oulipo (see also March 25 posting ) and known to many throug...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Queneau and the Oulipo

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Raymond Queneau was one of the leaders of a group of ten--primarily writers and mathematicians, primarily French--who founded a group, "...
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