McSweeney's Issue 22-from the notebook/the state of constraint/the poetry chains of dominic luxford (a first printing)

McSweeney's

ISBN 10: 0241143764 / ISBN 13: 9780241143766

Published by hamish hamilton,uk, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: McSweeney's Issue 22-from the notebook/the state of constraint/the poetry chains of dominic luxford (a first printing)
• Publisher: hamish hamilton,uk
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241143764
• ISBN 13: 9780241143766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

McSweeney's Issue 22 is a three-part exercise in inspired restriction — of author, of content, and of form. In section one, poets (yes — poets!) including Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, and D. C. Berman initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet. The next poet will then do the same, and then again, and again, and so on. In section two, Fitzgerald (yes — F. Scott Fitzgerald!) provides a list of unused story premises first cataloged in The Crack-Up; his mission is completed by writers like Diane Williams and Nick Flynn. In section three, finally, the president of France's (yes — France!) legendary Oulipians offers a rare glimpse into his group's current experiments with linguistic constraint. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.