oems
Volume 299
Publisher: Guernica Editions (CA)
Date of Publication: 10 February 2023
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781771837637 |
ISBN10: | 1771837632 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 64 pages |
Size: | 203x2x127 mm |
Language: | English |
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oems is a book of thirty-six poems about monomania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the insatiable pursuit of frission or "aesthetic chills." The result is a pornographically-polished lipogram owing as much to the constrained writing tradition of Oulipo as it does to an oddly satisfying timelapse of someone mowing a field with a scythe. The book eschews all words containing ascenders and descenders (the letters b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, and y) in order to create a highly uniform, "flat" aesthetic. The poems are fixated on this typographic flatness and the book could be thought of as an extended meditation on the shape of "smooth," non-jagged words.