A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
(Online)
Gallimard, 1961. Photo:
Thomas Guest,
CC BY 2.0.
Raymond Queneau's 1961 book contains ten sonnets, each divided into fourteen strips.
Choosing one line from each row gives 10¹⁴ possible poems.
This website is an online version of the book that recreates its
physicality. Click to turn the strip back and forth.
French text by Raymond Queneau. English translation by Beverley
Charles Rowe. Reproduced here as a non-commercial homage.
Made by
Yufeng Zhao, 2026