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Bök, Christian, 1966-
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DNA -- Poetry.
Amino acids -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Bök, Christian, 1966-
DNA -- Poetry.
Amino acids -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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The
xenotext
.
Book
1
/ Christian Bök.
by
Bök, Christian, 1966-
Coach House Books, 2015.
Call #:
819.16 B686x Bk.
1
Subjects
DNA -- Poetry.
Amino acids -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781552453216 (pbk.)
1552453219 (pbk.)
Description:
159 pages : black and white and color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Poems.
Some copies may be permabound.
Summary:
"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.
Genre:
Canadian poetry.
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