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"The Duke of Chaos" Concrete Poetry Cycle
The following four compositions list the third, fifth, seventh, and ninth words (respectively) on each page (in order, p.1-200) of Pocket Books Inc's 1964 The Duke of Chaos paperback. The novel's seven chapters delimit the poems' seven stanzas; emphases, punctuations, and capitalizations mimic the original publication.
"The Duke of Chaos in Thirds"
chancellor were in the breath counted touched a have one took death given peasants happy "For you not angrier not broad Waldstein fury. advised near following from not didn't with Padua
warrior with school you to put favorite will out to diversion, there colonel elbow and captured fought jaw, his himself change your jerked that. was felt stars. smoothly the finished to need strength, not von made
years oneness you It's a it a troop why his who after come was his to say nobility at Albrecht in back his you
Wallenstein they break boiled will rapped moon ambition enormous, he mission?" his love himself of Wallenstein land grated. mind, were some grave a want which Viktor sighed And dare," dipped could lose he's Czech Gottfried. learn make experience chair principality, consulted he mouth for and
to the Mansfeld this what have. less relatively said - by noises, Transylvanian his muttered crowns, agreement dry see the him pause: slim, a
was by out that do the using time Battista Ferdinand, the Catholic dimly he and a his I'd was pleaded
moved Protestant counterstrokes. with Seni myself for and Wallenstein met had was to What look smoke delirium, and the still Seni
"The Duke of Chaos in Fifths"
the boys with letter on two, roof of no. at November the weeping busy lend lieber the the anything that on down you to Palazzo as and say hope knees that
Basta, the learning make feet taking Regnier's here action. Pappenheim his see gun the when packed so face of Swiss to to dumbfounded. he quite breath course his it shaved lips. more, and you never regal
were developed him a so this at cuirassiers the but be Countess a long to his never the alter? an high-pommeled lips spartan yourself
be their or within be ungraciously. they ever galleried and felt goblet no the conspired not all take great ambitious of he step order Nikossie in "I try commander sank in intelligence: rascal in saw positions men Ferdinand's as example, astrologer - half under to again
known opposition his that proposed - if force target a that's he and Elizabeth, there, florins, me - sound the shook three if if cursing
his legend he the estimate never stolen visit tell could and Landsknechter of me back or head hundred amused. "Both
into if the assurance promptly, sit Catholic oblivious won Adolphus' honest by into said those Guns then he? cursed prayed after
"The Duke of Chaos in Sevenths"
Aegidinum Altdorf - others Uncle winter and now: fragments, could window of of the more hand you'll behind When a Wallenstein coach road me? elsewhere Ragione, was tall he come he they
weary. of be follow stiffened: crown he old the the in so too, of general Basta that grey Then, signed the a mean what way out should and understandable halfway see, Her mentally that Albrecht and
who of were thing Christian's - and and and dotards the if buried, state, calling emperor for a Catholic countess? to and in as questioning
awakened, now, star "So the get venal. a dank the nerves his than carved those a persons daughter had And alliance his swept to Landeck-Wallenstein low you evade replied. while but shrug been the head been what of big take his day swelling this Franziska's
history the of have great failed Bethlen's the laugh. last away he of mustn't goldmarks when and of head for insist don't with
of when to Tilly's, numbers?" doubt. to sense the Wallenstein better advance Tilly like to Tilly. the rather see. us
Germany, Tilly, of wished accepted at and the his at and the camp: true Bavarians captured, in only but this was
"The Duke of Chaos in Ninths"
Altdorf, Pappenheim his had their "Go!" were the killed which when restraining legendary or the in stables?" Präsident emergency about coming from God, his took dark. rushed harshly me for not
sat palling, advocate, anywhere was Such "Is grumbled the incompetent feint did if sagging ordered supervised been the Basta log soldier, there Landeck stars happened. his written in as his he shrilled well, "But away. beautiful
cynically quiet to looking died stars my the up Electors could sent Maximilian Wallenstein Pope battles So therefore, the "The "It's equally widower supernatural
delights would every chance wailed. orders this cavalryman. draughty man his and fit his - God ancient disloyal under shut I Bavaria? beard. bow Tilly greeted and it, question: with Katherina a shoulders up of the no of he reared titles Right and but and name
the had and old in turn have brought so you'll stamped although the When help breech old I said audience, talking him his
Count met James the asked cavalry a gave guarantee dismissed? for step, at smelly a Viktor? of died great already
carefully, and finally real. bag and Protestant roar so in Swedish cavalry duke's If by about, muttered and their happen, a
"The Duke of Chaos in Thirds"
chancellor were in the breath counted touched a have one took death given peasants happy "For you not angrier not broad Waldstein fury. advised near following from not didn't with Padua
warrior with school you to put favorite will out to diversion, there colonel elbow and captured fought jaw, his himself change your jerked that. was felt stars. smoothly the finished to need strength, not von made
years oneness you It's a it a troop why his who after come was his to say nobility at Albrecht in back his you
Wallenstein they break boiled will rapped moon ambition enormous, he mission?" his love himself of Wallenstein land grated. mind, were some grave a want which Viktor sighed And dare," dipped could lose he's Czech Gottfried. learn make experience chair principality, consulted he mouth for and
to the Mansfeld this what have. less relatively said - by noises, Transylvanian his muttered crowns, agreement dry see the him pause: slim, a
was by out that do the using time Battista Ferdinand, the Catholic dimly he and a his I'd was pleaded
moved Protestant counterstrokes. with Seni myself for and Wallenstein met had was to What look smoke delirium, and the still Seni
"The Duke of Chaos in Fifths"
the boys with letter on two, roof of no. at November the weeping busy lend lieber the the anything that on down you to Palazzo as and say hope knees that
Basta, the learning make feet taking Regnier's here action. Pappenheim his see gun the when packed so face of Swiss to to dumbfounded. he quite breath course his it shaved lips. more, and you never regal
were developed him a so this at cuirassiers the but be Countess a long to his never the alter? an high-pommeled lips spartan yourself
be their or within be ungraciously. they ever galleried and felt goblet no the conspired not all take great ambitious of he step order Nikossie in "I try commander sank in intelligence: rascal in saw positions men Ferdinand's as example, astrologer - half under to again
known opposition his that proposed - if force target a that's he and Elizabeth, there, florins, me - sound the shook three if if cursing
his legend he the estimate never stolen visit tell could and Landsknechter of me back or head hundred amused. "Both
into if the assurance promptly, sit Catholic oblivious won Adolphus' honest by into said those Guns then he? cursed prayed after
"The Duke of Chaos in Sevenths"
Aegidinum Altdorf - others Uncle winter and now: fragments, could window of of the more hand you'll behind When a Wallenstein coach road me? elsewhere Ragione, was tall he come he they
weary. of be follow stiffened: crown he old the the in so too, of general Basta that grey Then, signed the a mean what way out should and understandable halfway see, Her mentally that Albrecht and
who of were thing Christian's - and and and dotards the if buried, state, calling emperor for a Catholic countess? to and in as questioning
awakened, now, star "So the get venal. a dank the nerves his than carved those a persons daughter had And alliance his swept to Landeck-Wallenstein low you evade replied. while but shrug been the head been what of big take his day swelling this Franziska's
history the of have great failed Bethlen's the laugh. last away he of mustn't goldmarks when and of head for insist don't with
of when to Tilly's, numbers?" doubt. to sense the Wallenstein better advance Tilly like to Tilly. the rather see. us
Germany, Tilly, of wished accepted at and the his at and the camp: true Bavarians captured, in only but this was
"The Duke of Chaos in Ninths"
Altdorf, Pappenheim his had their "Go!" were the killed which when restraining legendary or the in stables?" Präsident emergency about coming from God, his took dark. rushed harshly me for not
sat palling, advocate, anywhere was Such "Is grumbled the incompetent feint did if sagging ordered supervised been the Basta log soldier, there Landeck stars happened. his written in as his he shrilled well, "But away. beautiful
cynically quiet to looking died stars my the up Electors could sent Maximilian Wallenstein Pope battles So therefore, the "The "It's equally widower supernatural
delights would every chance wailed. orders this cavalryman. draughty man his and fit his - God ancient disloyal under shut I Bavaria? beard. bow Tilly greeted and it, question: with Katherina a shoulders up of the no of he reared titles Right and but and name
the had and old in turn have brought so you'll stamped although the When help breech old I said audience, talking him his
Count met James the asked cavalry a gave guarantee dismissed? for step, at smelly a Viktor? of died great already
carefully, and finally real. bag and Protestant roar so in Swedish cavalry duke's If by about, muttered and their happen, a
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Concrete poetry
Trolling for new ideas and methods, I discovered a discipline described as "Concrete Minimalist Poetry". It is about (verbal?) immediacy delivered by (often "quasi-") linguistic symbols (combinations of parts of letters and words) and their visual composition on the page (or "page"). In some cases (see Derek Beaulieu's Flatland, for example) the poet departs from anything resembling lettering (and, therefore, language?) altogether.
Maybe "Where is the line between poetry and drawing/painting/etc.?" Whenever a question like this arises I say "Who Cares? (There is no line.)"
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