Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Christian Bök

Taking the surface of language to new heights, Christian Bök is a leading experimental poet.

The book I mentioned briefly this week, Eunoia, really means "beautiful thinking." See if you like what you hear and see here:

Here's chapter "i," with a link to the man himself reading an excerpt!

Check out a fancy Flash version of chapter "e" as well!

And, to push your tolerance for silly sounds to new and exciting levels, check out this excerpt of a "sound poem" of his.

With love,
Dr. Peters
(Just kidding it's Dan)

3 comments:

  1. haha yes it worked!

    Just wanted to say that I liked the poem and I feel an urge to try this in Swedish now to see if there's a difference.

    Have a marvelous day fellow poets. I'll be back more often now when I now how to use this blog. I have returned to the 21 century.. woho.

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  2. Welcome to the 21st century, Elina! :)

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