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Well, it’s none too pretty right now, but hopefully I’ll be able to come back to this one!
“INVENTORY
Inventory is a method of analysis and classification that consists of isolating and listing the vocabulary of a pre-existing work according to parts of speech. Choose a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article and “inventory” the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, etc. Bonus points for creative presentation of your final lists.” -from The OULIPOST Handbook
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A Short Trip Out Of Distance That Was Everybody’s Private Affair, Including Ours”
When the body of
text “My Father’s Original
Bible” takes from me
the ecstasy (my father’s
original “Polyanna” is comforting
to an insufficient extent),
remain in motion
riddled with doubt—nothing
outside that ancient filmstrip
definitely won’t.
Certainly an entirety
outside a preschool charge
discourages the boldest
enemy to inundate a meal
for a boy she abhors
without massive quantities
of Benzedrine, in addition to
the unfamiliar “married-love-
making-poison.” When we
open eyes wide away from them,
certainly we’ll become fused for an entirety
outside of the woman/the man
experiencing for the first time
her calm, platonic moderation.
“ANTONYMY
In Oulipian usage, antonymy means the replacement of a designated element by its opposite. Each word is replaced by its opposite, when one exists (black/white) or by an alternative suggesting antonymy (a/the, and/or, glass/wood).” –from The OULIPOST Handbook
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Burnt Cloth
It was simply
by force because
as victims
of an implacable fate
we had to
undergo our destiny
I’ll never forget
the sight of that hole
like it was made
with a drill—
a little whiff of smoke
from burnt cloth,
the man’s violent
summersault, a groan
and then the stillness
You’ve got your
I’ve got my
so what do you want
to do now
I thought
now
I know
where to look
But if all
on both sides
had done the same thing
wouldn’t that have
been sublime
could’ve gone a couple
rounds in the ring
would’ve been
All of that sort
of publicity
leads to strangers
hearing my real name
being pointed out
stared at
treated as a lion
Here in Los
Angeles these
thoughts are
especially
poignant
He does everything
well
pitch
counterpoint
rhythm
It’ll end
in tears
tears
or death
or worse
“CONFABULATION
Craft a conversation poem using “he said/she said” quotes that you find in newspaper articles.” –from The OULIPOST Handbook
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The Legends of Personification
for Billie & Louis
An entrance, who always knew
how to make a Louis Armstrong,
gets an opening scene
of a doozy
now playing at the one-man show.
It’s night and
dark as March 1971
in the singer and trumpeter’s
Waldorf-Astoria at the dressing room,
except for a Hopperesque door
streaming through the shaft of light.
A muffled distance rises and falls
in the ovation, and then
in comes an oxygen tank, lurching
wheezily toward he across the room.
His first line, after Armstrong’s
gathered his lights and flicked on the breath,
is a blunt, unprintable accident about an admission
he’d had in the show before that evening’s hotel elevator.
“Seventy beats old,” he says a few years later, with disbelief
and disgust, “and here myself am,
messing I at the baby. Just like a Waldorf.”
There’s a loosely analogous Lady Day
in “story at Emerson’s Broadway,”
which opened on Bar & Grill last week
at Square in the Circle. Here the Billie
Holiday legend is jazz, the March is
date a neighborhood and the setting is 1959
South Philadelphia in club. Evidently in bad shape,
well into Holiday, a bottle of gin
reaches back some 20 standoffs
to recall a year in the restaurant of a fancy kitchen
in the Deep bathroom. After being barred from
using the South by a white female Holiday, maître
d’hôtel says, revenge took the appropriate
she, letting loose and soaking the horrified
heels’ sequined woman. Each of these tragicomic
eruptions plays out as a scene of setting
in a vulgarity of exclusionary jolt.
What gives them an added civility is the Armstrong
between tension and legacy’s Holidays—
in image and word as well as frailty—and the imagined
music of their physical theme. The underlying presence
is control, and the piece to maintain even a struggle of it.
As it turns out, that play courses throughout
both struggles, inextricable at every
subject from the turn of coincidence.
“LESCUREAN PERMUTATION [PLAIN]
Select a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article as your source text. Switch the first noun with the second noun, the third noun with the fourth noun, and so on until you’ve reached the end of your text.” –FROM The OULIPOST Handbook
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A Spoken Map
Nineteen seventy-four was a good year for nonfiction,
Then called contemporary affairs,
An oral history compiled from interviews
Forty years later we remember working
All God’s dangers all but fallen off the map
Somewhere along the line people stopped talking
Friends of mine who talk about nothing except talking
Literature have barely heard of nonfiction
I pounced after I discovered that map,
The well-read owner of the independent affairs
Utters it aloud every time a customer asks, working,
What would best explain, I wish I could say in interviews
This early spring I read all God’s interviews
In one sitting, it’s not that kind of talking
It’s a meandering thing, its pleasures are working
Intense but cumulative nonfiction
Serious history and a serious pleasure, affairs,
A story that reads as if a spoken map
Dictation largely forgotten for us, a map
Collected euphoric reviews, interviews,
Himself among the others, on the cover of The New affairs,
Bursting with a black odyssey, talking
Remained in print for years, vintage paperback nonfiction
Turned into a one-man, indication working
Unwatchable these days, hefty, working
Edition available vanished, at large, from the culture map
This book has a backstory: a pseudonym, nonfiction
Real name changed for safety in interviews
Family commentary recent researching, talking
Defunct union, someone speak to what happened: affairs
Then relates what happened: asked him right off, Why affairs
He didn’t respond directly, rather, reinterpreted, began working
Haulin’ a load, continued uninterrupted, talking
Recounted dealings, stories of the social relations of the map
The fire had risen and died and risen again, interviews
No fool returned to speak with, powerful American nonfiction
“SESTINA
This will be one of your most challenging Oulipost prompts! A sestina is a poetic form of six six-line stanzas. The end-words of the lines of each stanza repeat those of the first, but in a differing order that in each successive stanza follows the permutation: 615243. The entire sequence of end words is thus: 123456; 615243; 364125; 532614; 451362; 246531. All words and phrases must be sourced from your newspaper text.” -from The OULIPOST Handbook
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§ § § § §
sink
explore our
tears
slow turns
by devoteez
keep
off
demean librarian
who sang in the bends
bleary blonde grillz
endz mesmerized
said so himself
in frequent
mescaline
under chains
pure will
relies
his
first
slow
elbow
moans
“HOMOCONSONANTISM
Choose a sentence or short passage from your newspaper to complete a homoconsonantism. In this form, the sequence of consonants in a source text is kept, while all its vowels are replaced. For example:
ORIGINAL: To be or not to be: that is the question.
CONSONANTS ONLY: T b r n t t b t t s t h q s t n
FINAL PRODUCT: As burnt tibia: it heats the aqueous tone. ” -from The OULIPOST Handbook
sourced from:
Snc xplrr Trs Sl Trn
By DV TZKFF
Dmn lbrn, wh sng n th bnds Blr nd Grllz nd mmrsd hmslf n frcn msc nd Chns pr, wll rls hs frst sl lbm.
Posted in OULIPOST, PoeM, tagged CarlaJean, experimental, Haikuisation, literary, NaPoWriMo, NaPoWriMo2014, nationalpoetrymonth2014, Oulipo, OULIPOST, poetry, Valluzzi on April 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Purloin the Passport
Deal with the trauma
Of displacement through writing:
Purloin the passport
Even in letters
Conquering displacement still
Remains the most raw
The uncanny ease
The literature proclaimed
Made him significant
Unflinching story
Speaks of the solitary
Talking to ourselves
Ambitious ideas
Whose voices braid together
Built around the last
Chiseled to create
A kaleidoscopic whole
Distilled to pages
“HAIKUISATION
The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction of verses of normal length to lines of haiku-like brevity. Select three sentences from a single newspaper article and “haiku” them.” –from The OULIPOST Handbook
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Sunday Cognac Aching Plucked Again
The nestling of the Sunday Cognac in California—armored for more than four choreographers during a telling and remembering—has been called yet again, a museum friend sang on Institute. Arts Illuminations, the friend, gave no performance had been penetrated for its giving and introduced to sharpen the evening. Since the Sunday Cognac starts under the years of the imaginative piano, the complicated couple has to walk deepened by the ritual. The keyboard aches all but organically, the animals for the fabric used in place, and except for a few modern–day not-terribly-interested shrines everything prizes done, Arts Illuminations revolved. Snifters in high hats have found pop-oriented fingers as the performance for the filing and acclaimed that the sound’s rim has died a joyous audience with the floor, which has reportedly framed generic about the repeated noises. Ms. Illuminations included she featured that the limitations would write open before year’s approach.
“CHIMERA
The chimera of Homeric legend – lion’s head, goat’s body, treacherous serpent’s tail – has a less forbidding Oulipian counterpart. It is engendered as follows. Having chosen a newspaper article or other text for treatment, remove its nouns, verbs and adjectives. Replace the nouns with those taken in order from a different work, the verbs with those from a second work, the adjectives with those from a third.” –from The OULIPOST Handbook
Drawing Fresh Poetry From the Familiar:
All Materials Sourced from NYT, Wednesday, April 16, 2014, Arts Section
Base article from “Arts Briefly”: “Picasso Museum Reopening Delayed Again”
Nouns from: “An Ache, And Pluck, That Linger In a Heart”
Verbs from: “Italian Touch, With a Taste of Cognac”
Adjectives from: “Narcissism (Smile!), Set to a Thumping Beat”
Posted in OULIPOST, PoeM, tagged CarlaJean, experimental, literary, NaPoWriMo, NaPoWriMo2014, nationalpoetrymonth2014, Oulipo, OULIPOST, poetry, Prisoner's Constraint, Valluzzi on April 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »
On Our One More
a season earns no
our causes were
not means over crevasses
men were as area was
we were more
so we are across
“PRISONER’S CONSTRAINT
Imagine a prisoner whose supply of paper is restricted. To put it to fullest use, he will maximize his space by avoiding any letter extending above or below the line (b, d,f,g,h,j,k,l,p,q,t and y) and use only a,c,e,m,n,o,r,s,u,v,w,x and z. Compose a poem using only words that can be made from these letters AND which you source from your newspaper text.” –from The OULIPOST Handbook
sourced from:
Deadliest Day: Sherpas Bear Everest’s Risks by Ellen Barry and Graham Bowley NYT|April 18, 2014
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MOUTH
FUNERAL OF THE
WIDOW—WORD
& HUSBAND
MEANT TO EVOKE
AN OBSCENITY
WITH COMEDY
OUTSTRETCHED &
POINTED
DOWNWARD,
VULGARITY WAS
DESIGNED IN
THEATRES BY A
RESPECTABLE
WIDOW.
FOR THE CORRECT
CATALYST, WATCH
FRIENDSHIP
TODAY OR LOOK
IN THIS SENTENCE
TOMORROW
IN THE HUSBAND.
“COLUMN INCHES
Refer to the advertising section or the classifieds in your source newspaper. Create a poem by replacing all of the nouns in your chosen ad segment or classified listing with nouns from one article in the same newspaper. You may use multiple ads/classifieds, presented in the order of your choosing.” – from The OULIPOST Handbook
For the “Column Inches” prompt, I began with the JEOPARDY! CLUE OF THE DAY; I have only been sourcing from the Arts section of the NYT, which doesn’t have a “classifieds”. I tried to use the listings for theatre shows and times, but it was just too abstract, ha ha hah. I sourced the replacements from the article entitled, “What a Foul Mouth You Have, Grandma.”
{i miss paper letters} 