Kay Ryan

Named Poet Laureate in 2008, Kay Ryan is known for her compact, witty, and yet highly-accessible poetry. Her work has been likened to that of Marianne Moore and Emily Dickinson. Ryan's poems work to

Houdini

by Kay Ryan (b. 1945)

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 Each escape 
 involved some art, 
 some hokum, and 
 at least a brief 
 incomprehensible 
 exchange between 
 the man and metal 
 during which the 
 chains were not 

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Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Workshop of potential literature). Founded by Raymond Queneau, with its members including Italo Calvino, Oskar Pastior and Jacques Roubaud, Oulipo believed in composing its literary works under arbitrary constraints.

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