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juv3nal — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:09:35 -0800

Raymond Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 Poems online (annotated, with both French & English text)

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:14:41 -0800

tl;dr

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:15:22 -0800

I kid, I kid. This is a great find. I had never seen the book.

By: AkzidenzGrotesk

AkzidenzGrotesk — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:18:59 -0800

I've never been able to put my finger on what it is I love best about the Oulipians, but this totally exemplifies it. There's an obvious delight in manipulating the sound and sense of the written word, but it never comes off (to me, anyway) as overly clever or self-indulgent. It's just...adorably nerdy, somehow, if that makes sense.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:24:21 -0800

Maybe a bit of info? Because the first three poems I read sucked, so I'm not going to bother with the other 99,999,999,999,997. I tried their home page but it doesn't load and says only, "Ooops." So what is this?

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:31:52 -0800

So what is this? wikipedia

By: Sukiari

Sukiari — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:36:27 -0800

Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits On a lurgid bee That mordiously hath bitled out Its earted jurtles Into a rancid festering [drowned out by moaning and screaming] Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts And living glupules frart and slipulate Like jowling meated liverslime Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me With crinkly bindlewurdles, Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon See if I don't.

By: cobra libre

cobra libre — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:51:45 -0800

This is great! I checked out the Gallimard edition from my university library and oohed and ahhed over it a few years go. The book itself is a beautiful thing in its own right. It's a pity that my French is so awful.

By: hopeless romantique

hopeless romantique — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:41:14 -0800

My post on the OuLiPo from 6 years ago. I think there was a site up before that had the sonnets, but it no longer exists. Anyway, for anyone interested I highly recommend the Oulipo Compendium, which has all of his sonnets written out, complete with cutting lines (so you can mix and match) - along with lots and lots of deliciously fun prose.

By: Solon and Thanks

Solon and Thanks — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:52:22 -0800

That's quite a lot. One might indeed say that it were greater than nine thousand poems.

By: swift

swift — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:37:57 -0800

It's no "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning."

By: vidur

vidur — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:28:16 -0800

So, this is what, the fourth worst poetry in the universe?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:35:33 -0800

I like things that are made to be recombined. See also Possible Lessnesses.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:20:23 -0800

So, this is what, the fourth worst poetry in the universe? Don't read a lot of poetry, do you?

By: slappy_pinchbottom

slappy_pinchbottom — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:34:41 -0800

"Slibberty bibbet!" I said to myself, "It's time to be glonching the zipe." So I loaded my gloncher with hither and yon, And went to the butcher's for cripe. The butcher he droozed, with a wink and a flug At my plans for the zipe to be glithered; But he packed me a titcurl of cripe and fresh insta And threw in a yowmunt, well-blithered. I searched for the zipe upon quildry and plintock, Across the vast Zibbelshime Stretch; Under a number of businessmen's stugs, But nary a zipe did I catch. As evening approached, all bliskow with druve I knew I'd be zipeless that day; So I got out my yowmunt, I got out my cripe And I glonchered myself, anyway! (must be read aloud for full effect)

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:38:23 -0800

Surrealist tag please. Although Queneau officially left the Group in 1929 this was more for political reasons rather than artistic and more specifically anti Andre Breton (who was his brother in law). He was a keen amateur mathematician and Pataphysicist. Here is some more about Oulipo. It should be noted that Oulipo members are still considered members after their deaths, although dead members are excused from group meetings.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:19:25 -0800

Oh, I just saw the title of the post in my recent activity. It makes my opening joke much less witty. :(