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Christian Bök

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Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a ’pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut, and Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern University Press, 2001). His book Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. Bök has created artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. His conceptual artwork has appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary.

Bibliography
Crystallography (2003)
Eunoia (2001)
Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (2001)

Awards
Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) for Eunoia

Works in the Archive

Christian Bök - Q & A

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Christian Bök is the author of two poetry collections, CrystallographyEunoia (Coach House, 2001).

Eunoia, one of the best-selling books of Canadian poetry in history, was the winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize.

He is also the author of the academic study 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science' (Northwestern, 2002).

Christian Bök - Reading

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Christian Bök is the author of two poetry collections, CrystallographyEunoia (Coach House, 2001).

Eunoia, one of the best-selling books of Canadian poetry in history, was the winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize.

He is also the author of the academic study 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science' (Northwestern, 2002).

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