toast!
biggest loser
stripped of
dignity?
family wants
answers
mom jailed
over massage scheme
ottawans
think pink
time to get
to work
maybe they
messed up her order?
racist
barbie speaks up
sweat the
small stuff
diamonds
over gridirons
pervy
come-on or movie hoax? you decide.
born to be a
viking
out of their
misery
what a mess!
master of
his own destiny
seniors
moment
end of the
line
underachievers
abound
it’s all
about the tulips
the politics
of fear
fuddle-duddle
the middle-muddle
on a cold
april day
SOURCES
Headlines
from the Ottawa Citizen & the Ottawa Sun
PROMPT: OULIPOST
#9: HEADLINES (VARIATION OF JEAN QUEVAL’S “CENT ONS”)
Compose a
poem whose body is sourced from article headlines in your newspaper.
ELABORATIONS
I wanted to
make use of both Ottawa papers for this exercise because I knew the Ottawa Sun,
which is a tabloid-style paper with a tendency to be bombastic, would yield
colourful results. But the Ottawa
Citizen netted me the last two couplets, so how could I resist?
JEAN QUEVAL
This
challenge is based on Jean Queval’s Cent Ons, a collection of 100 magazine
& newspaper headlines organized into five poems of twenty lines each. Like
many oulipians, Queval was a prolific & versatile writer, critic &
translator. I’m fascinated by his sense of play & experimentation. He wrote
a sentence, which he claimed was the longest without punctuation marks. He
played with the form of the novel & the sonnet.
As usual I'm getting my info from the fabulously thorough Oulipo Comendium.
READ my fellow Ouliposters’ poems here.
6 comments:
Love those last two lines! Can't wait to start into this one.
Fantastic from beginning to end.
thanks!
What a fun read!
I like the tulips matching with the fear.
thanks, Greg. & Dania...tulips are scaaary ;)
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