LE RETOUR AU PAYS (FRAGMENTS). 1968.

Paris: Gallimard, 1968

20.5 x 14cm, 60pp. Original wrappers. First edition of this collection of Oulipo text experiments by the author. Bens was responsible for the uniquely entertaining mathematics-based poem generating systems ‘Inventories’ and ‘Irrational Sonnets’. This copy from the numbered issue. A fine example.