Coincides Yon Latrine by John D. Wightman (new ebook reader TXT) 📖

Poetry as Explanation, Poetry as Praxis

Coincides Yon Latrine

John D. Wightman

This book is work of fiction. Any reference to historical events, real people, or real locales is used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2020 by John D. Wightman

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Oulipo

Although poetry and mathematics often seem to be incompatible areas of study, the philosophy of OULIPO seeks to connect them. Founded in 1960 by French mathematician Francois de Lionnais and writer Raymond Queneau, Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (OULIPO), or Workshop of Potential Literature, investigates the possibilities of verse written under a system of structural constraints. Lionnais and Quenuau believed in the profound potential of a poem produced within a framework or formula and that, if done in a playful posture, the outcomes could be endless.

One of the most popular OULIPO formulas is "N+7," in which the writer takes a poem already in existence and substitutes each of the poem’s substantive nouns with the noun appearing seven nouns away in the dictionary. Care is taken to ensure that the substitution is not just a compound derivative of the original, or shares a similar root, but a wholly different word. Results can vary widely depending on the version of the dictionary one uses.

By applying the N+7 rule to Wallace Stevens’s poem "The Snow Man," you get a new poem called "The Soap Mandible":

One must have a miniature of wisdom

To regard the fruit and the boulders

Of the pinions crusted with soap;

And have been colic a long time

To behold the junkyards shagged with Idaho,

The spun-yarn rough in the distant gloom

Of January surgery; and not to think

Of any mishap in the south of the winter,

In the south of a few lectures,

Which is the south of the language

Full of the same winter

That is blowing in the same bare plague

For the lithographer, who listens in the soap,

And, now himself, beholds

Now that is not thermal and the now that is.

Another OULIPO exercise uses the "snowball" technique, where the first line is one word long, the second line has two words, and so on. A snowball poem can also be made up of lines comprised of progressively longer words, in which two lines might read:

I am far from happy Mother reduced

A no-fly zone using yellow ribbons.

If the results of these formulas are strange, unintelligible, or seem too drastic, the OULIPO artists would argue that for generations poets have set structural constraints on themselves, from the sonnet to the sestina.

Author: Emanon

Posted: September 18, 2004

Type: Schools & Movements

L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E

Vague Kisses

roses/

people/

micromarketing/

opal/

for cornifying vague kiss/

segmental blackbird for quiet and subpotencies/

deep generation destroyed/

angry starry/

at of by I for to my minds/

angelheaded connection/

hipsters dragging dawn/

in an hysterical naked madness/

whispered woes/

dynamo saw the night fix machinery /

through heavenly looking/

best burning themselves of starving/

the ancient brotherhood for streets

Shunned White Hysterical Machinery

Singing/anything/already/

He/to/the/come/

People/everything/

A/the/garbage/do/

Thoughts/he/necessary/this/

Into/the/ever/

Inclusive/

Got/him/and/everyone/

Hardly/to/suffering/

For/so/stand/

Into/room/he/no/note/sing/

Loudspeaker/many/

Whether/he/moment/this/screaming/

Times/

The/had/it/put/and/hand/in/out/

Most/do/you/still/

Only/distress/

Felt/he/

And/wider/

To/the/something/

Because/own/

He/could/you/by/first/

He/does/would/a/microphone/him/

Everywhere/help/

Smiled/started/lawn/

Hadn't/as/zest/we/for/

Song/punish/

Stand/of/do/survive/

Of/anyone/

Previously/will/kept/of/energy/

Sound/

Help/

His/answering/he/put/be.the.most.misery/

&.only.the.satisfy.had.heard/

Guitar.full.started/

Within.something/

Entered.the.basement/

Away.he.of.over/

&.has.the.help.he.&.eaters.there/

An.of.he.together.there/

Do.middle.other/

The.him.had.not.full.finger/

Stadium.if.but.to.that.hand.chorus.singing/

Ever.still.food.only.

For. the.time/

That.didn't.let.again/

On.again/

Hardly.sneaking.to.around/

He.would.of.over/

He.everything/

See.help.

Sapphire Breasts, Lavish Snake Seas

canal cadaver fruits limb mane sins melancholic mists enthralled regrets liqueur hound divine eternal blade oil dream serpent fecund caresses wild calm monsters sin beautiful sensuous candle crystal evening quivering prisoner fecundity heady torrents souls drunkard hyacinth language scent fields transgression suckle swell potion steel splendid dipped moaned beauty bitter skin chamber drink snow tense flesh seize bone brass stormy enfold grandeur mirrors beloved languorously moon austere evil sphinx limpid scent adoration luxury blooms shadows voluptuous fire perfume lamp ceilings swans bliss mirrors beggars divan diamonds vast shriek dreaming night hips musk heavens eternal immense feed vile juice tresses breasts seas lavish snake purified deep torrid ship damned subtle polished crawl fur virgin clarity drunk repentance dreamy fine tears minerals gold vapor vermin sea undulating trembles opulent fripperies silent confession passionate cathedrals dazzling eyes squawk depths ecstasy perfumes undulant ruby fragrant oblivion wine liquid hair breed quiet secret azure jewels poison ornaments alchemy guilt memory light kiss pure veils cruelty horror pearl soul flowers worms grapes delight vague withered poison flung aroma gleams decorate sunset treasure women pallid languorous rich hollow opal sweet stars vampire shine clay depravity rays ardor charmed corpse whimpers sail rarest icy fascinate languor glittering exotic breathe invade ebony swoons embrace smoke cold repugnant pleasures pose spangled dizzying thighs blue bronze downy dances wisps betrayal sallow roses lewd caressing satin jewelry charms hiss ocean swam rack

Depths, Perfume Virgins

guilt breed ecstasy mists swell stormy liquid evening beautiful vast poison quiet clay kiss trembles beauty limb exotic grapes moaned ruby embrace sins gleams dizzying icy evil potion undulating seize fripperies memory smoke languorous liqueur enfold adoration hyacinth ship sweet quivering repugnant undulant damned shriek immense hair oblivion pallid swam divan eternal scent crawl downy shadows repentance serpent invade fine snake seas torrents oil confession pleasures squawk caressing sallow tresses subtle delight azure jewels fragrant dreaming eternal roses polished calm flowers perfumes betrayal breasts scent lewd austere rays ocean lamp shine flung rack ardor poison veils jewelry moon gold vapor sin silent limpid swoons depths opulent drink fields sapphire wine steel cathedrals stars rarest languor deep vile treasure worms hips ceilings hollow candle cadaver vague secret voluptuous bronze alchemy mirrors beloved fire luxury thighs wild dreamy torrid language skin tears breathe charmed divine minerals dipped eyes aroma hound fur monsters canal pose diamonds dances hiss tense feed rich splendid suckle ebony souls heady fecundity sea charms corpse grandeur ornaments melancholic bliss blade sensuous languorously musk night bone light depravity glittering withered vermin prisoner fruits dream caresses mane heavens satin fascinate chamber brass opal pure regrets blooms enthralled sphinx fecund whimpers swans juice vampire sunset bitter pearl cruelty passionate soul spangled blue transgression beggars crystal dazzling snow purified women sail horror clarity drunkard drunk mirrors flesh lavish cold wisps decorate perfume virgin

Acidic Heavenly

the brotherhood minds psyched sadly as my night fix ladies, to dawn his oil ,minds hysterical, themselves a fix in dawn, to my best, naked starry machinery, governed one through dynamo, fatal his saw, the fashion by himself, in starving destroyed result, shape by dynamo destroyed, tossed thus with as dawn, generation in the hair, for by gracious, went but thus of Kilimanjaro, hysterical recluse generation tamed starving, upkeep the brotherhood through his night naked, angelheaded, for I an s ancient generation, & the angelheaded father, I & particular crew, him fix hair, looks, & of hipsters, @ disdained & of connection, as came ancient naked, she shed way ridicule, dynamo connection reason, be own, saw porcupine, she streets to the snow, vanity starving & burning outlook, the jest once madness, form unkempt, detriment, dragging also the angry, that brotherhood its mirrors starry, his stab @ looking @ the burning female, said burning @ the dragging destroyed, looking she in invited needed connection, for his generation, streets that angry as though as destroyed for naked sister, for best acidic heavenly, saw flaxen looking @ the for themselves, shunned of, to ancient of my night, then themselves for by to the when, to for hair @ of fashion, a make, he the angelheaded about acquaintance care, of by machinery tease, reproach minds fix he his madness, dynamo reprimanded for same, the brotherhood belittled saw hysterical @ burning themselves a pejorative, in to his he starry in dragging, pass the best best diminutive, his angry minds hysterical to a heavenly, she entrusted out that form for inhibitions, dawn @ through the white, my his streets, his hipsters scent, it the starry machinery, the starving machinery, the alike machinery, I looking said to the ancient discovery, of cut, angry doubted heavenly, heavenly streets, the hipsters of for madness, hipsters became angelheaded, all night young connection, was through dawn of mirrors, the madness in the tins.

Saw Best Flaxen

stepped.enough.for.lips.are.expected.

event.stadium.fade.

was.&.last.stars.over.

can.hunger.the.done.the.&.he.know.

was.screaming.to.packed.chorus.

remains.people.

you.smiled.important.will.

bravely.

we.are.survive.this.

he.stick.hunger.

do.of.

into.put.the.left.life.you.

air.moment.in.minutes.

on.something.this.his.over.

he.important.if.up.around.do.

he.his.the.flew.

had.was.empty.

a.previously.smiled.

put.&.microphone.

whether.felt.he.anything.of.the.&.stand.

&.also.he.if.refrain.own.ready.he.the.song.

not.for.man.garbage.everyone.fans.

one.song.

there.it.stadium.him.

tank.

options.chorus.tries.be.everything.

the.things.everywhere.ignorance.got.swept.

/scalp.2.crotch/

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