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The locus classicus is Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes. He wrote ten different sonnets, and had them printed on strips of paper that could combine any of each sonnet's fourteen lines with any thirteen lines drawn from the others. Throughout Armand Schwerner's *(if personal) there are cutouts through which different words can be made to appear, substantially changing the text. There are numerous others. Mark At 11:51 AM 1/27/2005, you wrote: >There are, although I can't access any at the moment. Block poems by >both Duncan & Howe, for example. I seem to recall some maze-like poems >(well, Susan Howe's playful pages are that way; earlier, Olson did it >too in Maximus, eg). And various kinds of concrete poetry definitely do >that. bpNichol played such games in places too. > >Welcome (with a question yet!) > >Doug >On 26-Jan-05, at 5:57 PM, Edmund Hardy wrote: > >>Hello everyone! - (I'm new on this list) - >> >>>Well, that could be interesting. A 2D, matrix poem. Like Befunge, >>>maybe - >> >>This intrigues me. Many poetries sit on the page so that one could >>read down >>several ways, but are there any matrix poems, or maze poems which >>exist as >>such on the page and not using the hyper-text of the web? Or does >>anyone >>know of any multiple choice poems? >> >>Or is this just heading towards the ultimate democratic poem, the >>dictionary? >> >>- Edmund >> > > >Douglas Barbour >Department of English >University of Alberta >Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada >(780) 436 3320 >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > >Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight. >And still property is theft. > > Phyllis Webb