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Christian Bök (born Book, 1966- ), is a Canadian 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, and has created an artist book comprised of Rubik's cubes. Bök is a graduate of the University of Toronto and currently teaches at York University in Toronto. He has also worked in science-fiction television, designing artificial languages for fictional alien species.Bök's works include:
1 See also
- List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian poetsA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Milton Acorn Elizabeth Allan Joanne Arnott Margaret Atwood Margaret Avison B Bill Bauer Derek Beaulieu Henry Beissel Earle Birney Bill Bissett Christian Bok Stephanie Bolster Roo Borson George Bowering
- concrete poetryConcrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. The term was coined in the 1950s, and i, sound poetryLiterary movements Sound poetry is a form of literary composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded at the expense of more conventional semantic and syntactic values. By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for perfo
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