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Christian Bök (born Book, 1966) is a Canadian concrete and experimental poet. His work Eunoia, a story that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters (that is, a lipogram), is one of the best-selling works of Canadian poetry. Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry at Coach House Books, Eunoia won the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. His poetry has been featured in the lyrics of Norwegian artist Ulver's "A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP" (2003). Bök is also a sound poet, having performed an extremely condensed version of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. He has created conceptual art, making artist's books from Rubik's cubes and Lego bricks. Bök is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has taught at York University in Toronto; he currently teaches at the University of Calgary. He has also worked in science-fiction television, designing artificial languages for fictional alien species on Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon.
Bök's works include:
- Crystallography - 1994
- Eunoia - 2001 (winner of the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science - 2002
- The Cyborg Opera (forthcoming)
See also
External links
- Christian Bök pages on UbuWeb, including recordings and poetry (http://www.ubu.com/contemp/bok/bok.html)
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio clip (http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2002.php?t=1)
- Eunoia online book (http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/)