All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo: 1963 - 2017

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Since its inception in Paris in 1960, the OuLiPo-ouvroir de litterature potentielle, or workshop for potential literature-has continually expanded our sense of what writing can do. It's produced, among many other marvels, a detective novel without the letter e (and a sequel of sorts without a, i, o, u, or y); an epic poem structured by the Parisian

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Ian Monk is an English poet and Scott Moncrieff Award-winning translator who joined the Oulipo in 1998. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry in English and in French, most recently Vers de l'infini (Cambourakis, 2017), and has translated books by Raymond Roussel, Daniel Pennac, Marie Darrieussecq, Georges Perec, and various other Oulipians. He lives in Paris. Ian Monk is an English poet and Scott Moncrieff Award-winning translator who joined the Oulipo in 1998. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry in English and in French, most recently Vers de l'infini (Cambourakis, 2017), and has translated books by Raymond Roussel, Daniel Pennac, Marie Darrieussecq, Georges Perec, and various other Oulipians. He lives in Paris. Daniel Levin Becker is an American critic, editor, and translator who joined the Oulipo in 2009. He is the author of a book about the Oulipo, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard UP, 2012), and has translated Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure (Melville House, 2013), shorter works by several other Oulipians, and texts by ric Chevillard, Thomas Clerc, Paul Griffiths, and others. He lives in Oakland. Daniel Levin Becker is an American critic, editor, and translator who joined the Oulipo in 2009. He is the author of a book about the Oulipo, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard UP, 2012), and has translated Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure (Melville House, 2013), shorter works by several other Oulipians, and texts by ric Chevillard, Thomas Clerc, Paul Griffiths, and others. He lives in Oakland.