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A pioneer in experimental literature

Franz Mon connects words that might never otherwise have met. He presents the individual words in such a way that we can experience them fully and for themselves: as groups of very particular letters of the alphabet, rich in their own associations. This handsome volume – which includes never before published texts by Franz Mon collected from more than sixty years of his work – invites the reader to jump from word to word and page to page, all the while revelling in the surprise of cleverly and joyfully executed verbal combinatorics. It contains short commentaries by the author and is edited by poet and literary theorist Michael Lentz, who has also contributed an epilogue.