If any twentieth-century French poet invites a methodical, quasi-mathematical approach to their work, it is Raymond Queneau, co-founder of the Oulipo and author of the proto-algorithmic Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961).
Oulipo
This article considers the poetry of Jacques Roubaud, a member of the Oulipo whose constraint-based writing techniques often involve the revision and deformation of source texts.
This article explores the constrained writing practices of Austrian-American writer Walter Abish in relation to those of the French literary group the Oulipo
Daisy Sainsbury 