Jacques Jouet is a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and artist. He joined the Oulipo in 1983. The most recent titles in his bibliography are the novel Un dernier mensonge and the poetry collection Du jour, the fourth volume of the daily poem project he has been pursuing since 1992 (the first three volumes were published in 1999 as Navet, linge, œil de vieux). His works in English translation include Mountain R, Upstaged, and Savage, all published by Dalkey Archive Press.