Tichy, SusanWalsh, Michael Joseph2013-09-162018-09-162013-09-16https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8498This thesis is made up of several connected projects, all motivated by a similar set of formal and conceptual concerns. Broadly stated, these concerns involve an investigation of language and the lyric voice subjected to manipulation, translation, and constraint; the poems that result from these investigations ply their trade in the statically charged space between sense and nonsense, signal and noise, this world and the world beyond.enPoetryOulipoExperimental writingLyricConceptualismPoetry in translationThesis