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Poet of the Day: Christian Bök
Sep. 18th, 2012 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealWhen I was asked to bring a short poem to a poetry class (by someone other than me), I chose "Vowels" by Christian Bök.
Born in Toronto in 1966 as "Christian Book," he changed his surname "to avoid unseemly confusion with the Bible." I discovered him through Eunoia, a book in five chapters, each only using one vowel. ("A law as harsh as a fatwa bans all paragraphs that lack an A as a standard hallmark.") You can read it for free here.
"Vowels" appears at the end of the book, and is also available on UbuWeb.
( Vowels )
Born in Toronto in 1966 as "Christian Book," he changed his surname "to avoid unseemly confusion with the Bible." I discovered him through Eunoia, a book in five chapters, each only using one vowel. ("A law as harsh as a fatwa bans all paragraphs that lack an A as a standard hallmark.") You can read it for free here.
"Vowels" appears at the end of the book, and is also available on UbuWeb.
( Vowels )
