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Strugalla utilized several typefaces and sizes, as well as overprinting for two major clusters of words in this sound poem dedicated to Kurt Schwitters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Oulipo is an acronym for the French word meaning "Workshop for Potential Literature." The group was formed in 1960 by Raymond Queneau, a celebrated novelist and poet who was not an inconsequential amateur mathematician and his friend, Francois Le Lionnais, a chessmaster who shared his friend's love for mathematics. Queneau had been struggling with a literary task of immense complexity, his 100 trillion poems and asked Le Lionnais for practical assistance.When they discusses this problem, their conversations turned to the possibility of incorporating mathematical structures into the process of literary creation. Queneau had ready been doing this in his novels, but no one noticed until he mentioned it. Queneau and Le Lionnais soon widened their investigations beyond mathematics to include all forms of artificial restriction in literature. As an Oulipean term, restriction means a constraining method or system or rule that can be precisely defined. All literature is limited by the...

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The content of this book deals with the structure of imaginary poems; no punctuation is used. The work was translated by Malcolm Green. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Muller presents a fictionalized account of the Russian round-up of German civilians living in Romania in 1944 and imposition of them into a forced labor camp in Russia until 1950 based upon discussions with Oscar Pastior who subsequently wrote concrete poetry.Amazon.com: It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, and battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the labor colony: one shovel load of coal is worth one gram of bread.In her new novel, Nobel laureate Herta Muller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity and dispassionate precision to conjure the distorted world of the labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity. She has given Leo the language to express the inexpressible, as hunger sharpens his senses into an acuity that is both...

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Each contributor was given one or more pages for a poem or image related to Malevich's "Homage to the Square." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each contributor was given one or more pages for a poem or image related to Malevich's "Homage to the Square." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.