12/7/2023 0 Comments I am da one wordsPerhaps because their backgrounds were not primarily in experimental poetry or postwar art (Le Lionnais was a mathematician and Queneau primarily an editor and novelist), the two oddly overlooked concrete poetry, a form of visual poetry that uses the arrangement of words to convey meaning. Even in 1976, they doubted that a poem could be constructed from fewer than several words. Writing in 1961, at the founding of the Oulipo ( Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) movement, Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, two of France’s most significant postwar literary experimentalists, wondered to one another “how few words can make a poem?”Īccording to Le Lionnais, this question would preoccupy the two until Queneau’s death 15 years later. Jack Spicer, “Second letter to Federico García Lorca” A really perfect poem has an infinitely small vocabulary.
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