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    <body><![CDATA[it's a paradox that stricter structures somehow result in more creative experiments. the first part of this book of poems is divided into 5 chapters: A, E, I, O, U. the first chapter uses only words that have the letter A exclusively, the second are words that use only E, and so on. the second half ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40664196">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A strange experiment in fiction where Bok only uses words with one particular vowel in a chapter. So the first chapter only features the vowel ‘a,’ the second only features ‘e,’ and so on. You've got to give Christian Bok credit for the effort, and for pulling it off at all. Sometimes it’s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19262704">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply my favorite monograph of poetry, ever. The bulk of it consists of five chapters, and each one is written using a single vowel. Your jaw just drops at the complexity of what he can say within this extremely confining exercise. <br/><br/>Some of it is beautiful: &quot;Kingbirds flit in glidin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2741673">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is actually a pretty cool concept--each chapter is dedicated to maintaining a lipogram (E uses only words with &quot;e&quot; in it, etc.) that creates a tonal character profile for each vowel. some of them are clever, but mostly i read this with a great sense of awe. that he even sat own and wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40586823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[WOT a tour de force. Seat belt required. Just when I thought he was losing me (and I thought that through much of Chapter A), a passage springs into action and spins out some unbelievable dazzle, so that I finish the phrase slack-jawed. Eunoia flirts dangerously with being simply an exercise, a let'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58057082">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the weirdest book I've ever read.<br/><br/>How much can you write using just a single vowel?  The author pushed this idea to the limit in 5 chapters (&quot;A&quot;, &quot;E&quot;, &quot;I&quot;, &quot;O&quot;, and &quot;U&quot;).  Wow.<br/><br/>I've created a new bookshelf for this book - I ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable, still learning something about lipograms for my own work. Oulipo, and all that. I'm not sure the project warrants six years of work though, although I'm sure he was doing other things as well...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Experiments in writing poetry in strict rules.  Chapters dedicated to only writing using one vowel, etc.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't going to be everyone's taste, but it's a triumph.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OH MAN LIPOGRAMS.<br/><br/>The conceit is monomaniacal enough to warrant the ego of the composition, but I could still have done without chapters I and U.  There's only so much apparently Iliad-inspired poetry where &quot;Ubu thrusts. Ubu bucks. Cum spurts. Ubu cums.&quot; that I can handle.  Chap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17064024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really marvelous poetry. Bok's experiment, if I can do it justice, is to write a series of poems, each of which utilizes only a specific vowel. Each poem contains certain elemnets, like debauchery, a obulent meal, and a sea voyage. The result is a beautifully lyrical symphony of imagery, with each l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35060549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an AMAZING book. Each chapter is titled for a vowel (i.e. the first chapter is entitled &quot;Chapter A,&quot; etc.), and for each chapter, the chapter's vowel is the only vowel used throughout the chapter. Even though the text isn't too in-depth (it's not like the chapters have the plots of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2642458">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really freaking cool experiment with words. I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in the sound of language, well the vowel sounds in this book. You do find, as the book has five parts each dedicated to a vowel, that the sounds really do seem to align with certain meanings. It's a very int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16057544">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous!  A book that adheres to strict--and fascinating--formal constraints with tremendous, beautiful results.  This is an important book in contemporary poetry...I'm blown away.  It makes me want to write, to experiment, to have even more fun with language.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is very cool.  Of interest.  Not necessarily the perfect form of itself.  A &quot;concept album.&quot;  I ask if it is more to demonstrate a point or be actually an end.  This is the question of conceptual art.  Can it also be art?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant idea and truly admirable execution, but it quickly becomes a <em>very</em> slow read. Which might be a reflection on my intelligence more than anything else, but it still tempered my enjoyment of the book more than a little.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am trying very hard to get the language thing because I want so much to love Christian Bok. But I'm having trouble not being able to put logic to some of the poems. Regardless, I still &lt;3 Christian Book. ]]></body>
    
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