"Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin script."

Jaybo — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:16:10 -0800

E uno i a ("beautiful thinking") is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five vowels. It is also the title of a poetry collection by Canadian author Christian Bok. In addition to writing each chapter using only words that contain one vowel, (Flash presentation of Chapter "E") Bok also greatly limits himself in other ways. An amazing accomplishment that won the $40 000 Griffith Poetry Prize in 2002, E uno i a is best experienced in its spoken form. (MP3 links) (If you don't know Bok's poetry, you still might know his other work. He has also created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon.)

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"Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin script."