Exploring Combinatorial Methods to Produce Sonnets: An Overview of the Oupoco Project
Résumé
The Oupoco project is a project exploring combinatorial methods to produce poetry by recombining existing lines of poetry. The starting point of the project was the book by Raymond Queneau, Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes (A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, in English) [Queneau 1961]. This book is composed of ten sonnets, each line being printed on a separate strip of paper (Figure 1), allowing the reader, by freely combining the different lines, to potentially produce and read a hundred thousand billion different sonnets. This combinatorial approach (the main characteristic of the book) encourages the reader to play with the meanings of the lines, with the various language registers, or simply to have fun with the book. It is this stimulating relationship between poetry and constraints that we wanted to reproduce and that was the mainspring of our project.
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