Newlipo « Oulipoetics, Oulipoetries

Newlipo

/AKA NEO-OULIPO, TOWARDS OULIPO, PARA-OULIPO, PSEUDO-OULIPO

When the first sonnet was written almost a thousand years ago what counted most was not the poem itself but a new potentiality of future poems. Such potentials are what the Oulipo invents or rediscovers.
-The Oulipo Compendium

Oulipians: rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape.
Raymond Queneau
The constraint is a rhetoric of invention which owes its powerful effect precisely to the fact that it exceeds the cultural expectation defined by the rule.
Christlee Reggiani
The bulk of human wisdom is contained in combinatories.
Quirinus Kuhlmann
Potential literature remains thus the most serious thing in the world. Q.E.D.
Francois Le Lionnais