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Christian Bok

    Christian Bök es un poeta experimental canadiense reconocido por su innovación lingüística y exploración poética. Su obra a menudo profundiza en la deconstrucción y las posibilidades de la expresión literaria, experimentando tanto con la forma como con el contenido. Bök es conocido por su enfoque distintivo que empuja los límites de la poesía convencional. Su escritura refleja un profundo compromiso con el lenguaje y el arte.

    Eunoia
    The Xenotext: Book 1
    Crystallography
    • Crystallography

      • 158 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      'Crystal lography' means the study of crystals, but also, taken literally, 'lucid writing.' This book features the intersection of poetry and science, and explores the relationship between language and crystals - looking at language as a crystal, a space in which the chaos of individual parts align to expose a perfect formation of structure.

      Crystallography
    • The Xenotext: Book 1

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      "After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of E. coli , Bök is on the verge of enciphering a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of an unkillable bacterium (Deinococcus radiodurans), which can, in turn, read his text, responding to it by manufacturing a viable, benign protein, whose sequence of amino acids enciphers yet another poem. The engineered organism might conceivably serve as a post-apocalyptic archive, capable of outlasting our civilization. Book I of The Xenotext constitutes a kind of 'demonic grimoire,' providing a scientific framework for the project with a series of poems, texts, and illustrations. A Virgilian welcome to the Inferno, Book I is the "orphic" volume in a diptych, addressing the pastoral heritage of poets, who have sought to supplant nature in both beauty and terror. The book sets the conceptual groundwork for the second volume, which will document the experiment itself. The Xenotext is experimental poetry in the truest sense of the term. Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (1994), a 'pataphysical encyclopedia' and 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (2001). His book Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary, Alberta"--Provided by publisher

      The Xenotext: Book 1
    • A wonderful gift book for word freaks, scrabble nuts, and crossword fans everywhere...

      Eunoia