Lipogram

A Lipogram purposefully excludes a particular letter of the alphabet. 

Excluding multiple letters, as with a text written using a limited alphabet, is considered a Polylipogram. Also see Univocalic.

Source

Oulipo. The Lipogram is, according to Perec,

Examples

• Georges Perec's La Disparition (1969), translated by Gilbert Adair into English as A Void (1995): a novel excluding the letter E
• Ernest Vincent Wright's Gadsby (1939): a novel exluding the letter e
• Nick Montfort's Upper Typewriter Row

Works that use this form

• Birthday 29
• Into Tilting Ruins
• Newspoem 12 April 1998: La Bamba
• Newspoem 20 June 1999: Disappearing Cities
• Newspoem 23 March 1998: Mayor Giuliani Outlaws Painting, Arrests Artists
• Nothing
• Quips
• That Stupid Happy Birthday Party Song
• The Poor Get More Poor
• Vanity

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