sound poems

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Christian Bök nasceu em Toronto, no Canadá, em 1966. Faz parte de uma comunidade poética que abrigou poetas experimentais nas décadas de 70/80 como bpNichol (1944 – 1988) – uma figura que assume na poesia canadense um papel parecido com o de Paulo Leminski na brasileira–, além de Steve MacCaffery e bill bissett, e hoje conta ainda com outros investigadores e instigadores como W. Mark Sutherland e Nobuo Kubota. Christian Bök é professor na Universidade de Calgary.

Sua estréia em livro deu-se em 1994, com o volume Chrytallography, que ele chama de pataphysical encyclopedia. Também poeta-performer, seu trabalho espraia-se pela poesia textual, pela poesia sonora e pela poesia visual, apresentando-se em vários festivais de textualismo experimental do hemisfério norte, muitas vezes vocalizando também poemas fonéticos de dadaístas como Hugo Ball e Kurt Schwitters.
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An animated interpretation of two Christian Bok sound poems.
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Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök is currently a Professor of English at the University of Calgary.
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Born in Toronto, Canada on August 10, 1966, Bök earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Carleton University, as well as a Ph.D. in English from York University in Toronto where he first became interested in the avant-garde poetics of Canadian writers like bpNichol, Steve McCaffery, and Darren Wershler-Henry, among others. His collections of poetry include Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), which was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Eunoia (2001), a lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its chapters, which received the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize. The Judge’s Citation describes it as “an immensely attractive work from those ‘corridors of the breath’ we call vowels, giving each in turn its dignity and manifest, making all move to the order of his own recognition and narrative…As we are told at the outset, ‘Eunoia, which means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels.’ Here each speaks with persistent, unequivocal voice, all puns indeed intended.” Bök is also a sound poet and conceptual artist who has produced numerous artist’s books, including books made entirely of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks. Additionally, he has invented languages for the science-fiction television shows Earth: Final Conflict and Amazon. Bök lives in Alberta where he is currently a Professor of English at the University of Calgary.