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Tom La Farge

Contributor

Tom La Farge

United States

Tom La Farge wrote two novels, Zuntig and The Crimson Bears, and a book of tales, Terror of Earth. He co-founded the Writhing Society, a weekly salon for constrained writing in Brooklyn, and created the first three pamphlets of a manual, 13 Writhing Machines, explaining various constraints....

“Three Writhings” appeared in the &Now Awards 2009. His chapbook Life and Conversation of Animals appeared in 2010. He was the managing editor of Proteotypes, the publishing arm of Proteus Gowanus.

From the Translator: Content with Constraint

By Tom La Farge

The question most on a translator’s mind, when working on an Oulipian text, is, do you translate the constraint or the content? Can you do both: follow both the potentiality unleashed by the constraint…

Infinity, Minus Forty Yearly Installments: Noun Complements (1972–2012)

By Michèle Métail

On every banknote that passed through my hands I wrote one verse.

Translated from French by Tom La Farge

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Tom La Farge

Tom La Farge

Articles by Tom La Farge

From the Translator: Content with Constraint

Infinity, Minus Forty Yearly Installments: Noun Complements (1972–2012)