Christian Bök
Bök reading from Eunoia at the University of York on May 19, 2011
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| Born | Christian Book August 10, 1966 Toronto |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | B.A, M.A, PhD |
| Alma mater | Carleton University |
| Notable works |
Eunoia Crystallography |
| Notable awards | Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 |
Christian Bök (born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is an experimental Canadian poet. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
He was born "Christian Book", but changed his last name.
He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University in Ottawa. He returned to Toronto in the early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature at York University, where he encountered a burgeoning literary community that included Steve McCaffery, Christopher Dewdney, and Darren Wershler-Henry. As of 2005[update] he teaches at the University of Calgary.
In 1994, Bök published Crystallography, "a pataphysical encyclopaedia that misreads the language of poetics through the conceits of geology." The Village Voice said of it: "Bök's concise reflections on mirrors, fractals, stones, and ice diabolically change the way you think about language — his, yours — so that what begins as description suddenly seems indistinguishable from the thing itself."Crystallography was reissued in 2003, and was nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award.
Bök is a sound poet and has performed an extremely condensed version of the "Ursonate" by Kurt Schwitters. He has created conceptual art, making artist's books from Rubik's Cubes and Lego bricks. He has also worked in science-fiction television by constructing artistic languages for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon.
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