Oems / Ma[tth]ew [T]om[k]inson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomkinson, Matthew, 1989- author.

Series:

Essential poets ; 299.

Essential poets series ; 299

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry, Canadian.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

57 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hamilton (ON), Canada ; Tonowanda, NY : Guernica, 2022.

Summary:

"Oems is a book of thirty-six poems about monomania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the insatiable pursuit of frission or "aesthetic chills." The result is a pornographically-polished lipogram owing as much to the constrained writing tradition of Oulipo as it does to an oddly satisfying timelapse of someone mowing a field with a scythe. The book eschews all words containing ascenders and descenders (the letters b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, and y) in order to create a highly uniform, "flat" aesthetic. The poems are fixated on this typographic flatness and the book could be thought of as an extended meditation on the shape of "smooth," non-jagged words."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

On source of information, letters with ascenders and descenders in the statement of responsibility are replaced with a blank space.

ISBN:

9781771837637

1771837632

OCLC:

1292594501