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All the Way for the Win

January 14, 2025

All the Way for the Win
Nick Montfort
Penteract Press, 2025

All the Way for the Win belongs to the Oulipian tradition, or anti-tradition, of writing under an innovative constraint. The main one is that the text is a trinol — that is, the poems in this collection are composed only of three-letter words.

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Nick Montfort

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.