Eunoia - Softcover

Bok, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552450929 ISBN 13: 9781552450925

Publisher: Coach House Books, 2001

Synopsis

Poetry. Fiction. Cross Genre. "A marvelous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes"--Harry Matthews. "Eunoia" is the shortest word in English to contain all five vowels, and the word quite literally means "beautiful thinking." EUNOIA is a universal lipogram, in which each chapter restricts itself to the use of a single vowel. Directly inspired by the exploits of Oulipo--the avant-garde coterie renowned for its literary experimentation with extreme formalistic constraints--the text makes a Sisyphean spectacle of its labor, willfully crippling its language in order to show that, even under such improbable conditions of duress, language can still express uncanny thought. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, this work of literature is "an exemplary monument for 21st-century poetry"--Charles Bernstein.

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Review:

"Extraordinary, outrageous, irresistible - a must for verbivores." (Gyles Brandreth)

"Amazing... impressive... It's beautiful, its funny and it's moving." (Globe and Mail)

"Linguistically daring and delightfully inventive...engaging, witty and moving." (Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday 2008-10-26)

Book Description:

A wonderful gift book for word freaks, scrabble nuts, and crossword fans everywhere...

About this edition

• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1552450929
• ISBN 13: 9781552450925
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112