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Riddle and Bind

Nick MontfortNick Montfort
October 31, 2010
Riddle and Bind Nick Montfort Spineless Books, 2010

Riddle & Bind is a book of poems to solve.

Riddle & Bind is a book of poems to solve. The first section, “Riddle,” consists of poems written as riddles the reader is invited to solve by guessing the subject of the poem. The third section, “Bind,” is a selection of constrained poetry written using traditional and nontraditional poetic forms. The second section, “&,” combines both approaches in a sequence of poems inviting the reader to guess how they were constructed.

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Nick Montfort, professor of digital media, uses computation to develop literary art. His work includes more than ten computer-generated print books (from seven presses), the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between, and Memory Slam: Batch-Era Text Generation. His most recent book of poetry is human-authored but written under constraint: All the Way for the Win (Penteract Press, 2025) consists entirely of three-letter words. Among Montfort’s MIT Press books are The Future and two co-edited volumes, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. He’s also principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. He directs a lab/studio, The Trope Tank. For more, see Nick’s site, nickm.com.

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