Lipogram

A Lipogram purposefully excludes a particular letter of the
alphabet. A Liponym excludes a particular word, though it is hard to make this interesting.

Excluding multiple letters, as with an anagram, or a poem written using a Boggle set, is considered a lipogram. Also see Univocalic.

Source

Oulipo, Traditional

Examples

The Lipogram is, according to Perec, "The oldest systematic artifice of western literature." The lipogram has a long hi

Works that use this form

• Birthday 29
• Into Tilting Ruins
• Newspoem 12 April 1998: La Bamba
• Newspoem 20 June 1999: Disappearing Cities
• Newspoem 23 March 1998: Mayor Giuliani Outlaws Painting, Arrests Artists
• Nothing
• Quips
• That Stupid Happy Birthday Party Song
• The Poor Get More Poor
• Vanity

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