1. Ou Li Po (Ouilipo)
Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle – Workshop for Potential Literature
Group of writers & mathematicians
Formed in France in 1960
Rejects spontaneous chance and subconscious as sources of creativity
Emphasizes systematic, self-restricting methods of writing
A type of Conceptual Poetry

2. Meeting of the Oulipo in Boulogne, near Paris, on September 23, 1975, in the garden of François Le Lionnais.

3. n + 7 technique
Replace every 7th word in an existing text with the noun that follows seven entries after it in the dictionary
Jean Lescure ( )
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4. Raymond Queneau François Le Lionnais Georges Perec (1903-1976)
Italo Calvino
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François Le Lionnais
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Oskar Pastior
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Georges Perec
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Jacques Roubaud
born 1932

5. Links on all pictures! Jacques Roubaud Oskar Pastior Italo Calvino
(Video at 1:30)

6. Raymond Queneau
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100,000,000,000,000 poems

7. The split
tell-us the split where the sublime barb ends
racing ruin stocking hope
Cul-de-sac where gold sanctuary intrigues:
clowns killing—sic—retrograde profit
Encrusted halo…
Georges Perec

8. Obscurity hasn’t united death.
To sink yourself:
does it inspire you more?
does it thunder?
does it leave the space, your sacred
thread
(the raw discoursing,
the black juice—"futile plea"—giving
rise to
the unfinished bear, the antic bear)?
Georges Perec