December 21, 2016
Oulipo-Adjacent: Harryette Mullen
In my last post on Unica Zürn and the poetics of the anagram, I briefly mentioned the Oulipo writers, often the first group to come to mind when one thinks of constraint-based writing […]
December 19, 2016
Unica Zürn: It lies in your hand
Enge, hier ist dein Land . . . es liegt in deiner Hand. (Narrow, here is your country . . . It lies in your hand.) –Unica Zürn (Berlin, 1954) […]
July 20, 2015
Poetry and Play (Part I)
When I was in Amsterdam earlier this summer, the Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga came up in multiple conversations about poetry; more specifically, his 1938 book Homo Ludens: Proeve […]