Christian Bök

Christian Bök is a Canadian poet and sound artist born in 1966 in Toronto. His Eunoia (2001) — in which each chapter uses only one vowel — won the Griffin Poetry Prize and became one of the most celebrated Canadian poetry books of the decade. His practice also encompasses sound poetry and performance, including The Xenotext project, in which he has worked to encode a poem into the genome of Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium that can survive radiation. He has performed internationally as a sound poet and has published on the poetics of pataphysics, the lettrists, and other avant-garde traditions.