Friday, February 6, 2009

Eunoia

Eunoia is a word meaning "beautiful thinking." It also happens to be the shortest word in the English language to use all five vowels. By no coincidence, Canadian poet Christian Bök (pronounced "book") used the word as the title of a remarkable five chapter book that cycles through the vowels of the roman alphabet, devoting each chapter to the limited use of a single vowel to construct all words therein. The project took 7 years to actualize and if his often bizarre and humorous conceptual poetry wasn't enough, this staggering work has secured his place as one of the true innovators in the art of writing. The entire text can be found here.

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