Poetry. With art by Paul Collins. MAL ARME represents the third stage of a series of Oulipian books that started with LETTER DROP (2000), continued with MI SING (Book Thug 2004), and will conclude with The Occasional Troubadour (forthcoming 2010). The first three volumes each consist of 26 Lipograms, lettered A thru Z, wherein the A poems have no As, the B poems have no Bs, etc. The first book excavated an assortment of texts ranging from the 1928 edition (the 9th) of Sir Morell MacKenzie's Hygiene of the Vocal Organs to such fictions as Tom Swift and His House on Wheels. MI SING reverts to a single text for its sources and inspiration: Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The current text plays close attention to the prose writings of Stephane Mallarme in translation. The fourth continues its author's fascination with all things French by roaming through that country's southeast regions through a two-volume study published in 1898 called The Troubadours at Home.

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Victor Coleman is the author of numerous books of poetry, starting with the 1964 publication of From Erik Satie's Notes to the Music, through CORRECTIONS (1985), LAPSED WASP (1994), ICON TACT (2006), and THE OCCASIONAL TROUBADOUR. He was a founding editor of both Coach House Press (in 1965) and Coach House Books (in 1997) and has labored as a film programmer, director of an artist run center, and co-director and programmer for a musical performance center, all in Toronto. He currently toils as a freelance editor and a part-time cook at a downtown social service facility. In 2011 The University of California Press will release his (and Michael Boughn's) edit of Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book.