To welcome Robert Kloss’s The Alligators of Abraham into the world, I chopped, twisted, torqued, and reshaped his words into some new spin-off texts based on Oulipean methods. Here you’ll find a lipogrammatic rendering of one of his paragraphs without the letter “e,” a couple of paragraphs with all the nouns replaced, a cento, or found poem, and a snowball and reverse snowball using words from his original text.

Read Tim Horvath’s Text Inspired by the Alligators of Abraham.