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  • Cents Mille Milliards de Poèmes by Raymond Queneau is a flipbook of ten sonnets, in which each sonnet appears by itself on a recto, and each recto is sliced into fourteen horizontal strips, with one line of poetry on each strip, so that the lines themselves can be turned like long, thin pages within the book itself.

    Quick Review 08 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Barbara Wright (1915 – 2009), two-time winner of the Scott Moncrieff award, translator of Queneau, Sarraute, Tzara, Jarry and others, died in March.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • That American postmodernists might seem laggardly in their capacity for game-playing and their delight in "incongruity" when compared to a Georges Perec or a Raymond Queneau would no doubt strike certain no-nonsence American readers and critics as outlandish.

    Art and Culture 2010

  • Invited by Raymond Queneau to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers, he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production.

    August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Besides Mr. Shannon's bell jars, there will be David Amar's marvelously eccentric table, "Raymond," (named after experimental French writer Raymond Queneau), Yuya Kurata's ingenious "Stool for Two," Azusa Murakami's sleek porcelain "Implements for Eating Hamburger" and Harry Thaler's witty glass object, "Hang It on the Wall."

    All the Beauty Under One Tent Emma Crichton-Miller 2010

  • Just a little detail: you forgot the final U in "Raymond Queneau" ...

    MetaHaiku Heather McDougal 2009

  • "Cent mille milliards de poemes" (A hundred thousand billion poems), by Raymond Queneau

    MetaHaiku Heather McDougal 2009

  • Barbara Wright (1915 – 2009), two-time winner of the Scott Moncrieff award, translator of Queneau, Sarraute, Tzara, Jarry and others, died in March.

    Deaths in the extended family (pt. 1) 2009

  • "Cent mille milliards de poemes" (A hundred thousand billion poems), by Raymond Queneau

    Archive 2009-08-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Invited by Raymond Queneau to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers, he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production.

    italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

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