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Please join us for a poetry reading by Christian Bok on Thursday,
November 1, 4 pm. This reading is co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library’s
Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection and the Beinecke Library-Whitney
Humanities Center Working Group in Contemporary Poetry. The event is free
and open to the public. For additional information about poetry at the
Beinecke Library visit:
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a>. The Beinecke Library is located
at 121 Wall Street, New Haven.<br><br>
Canadian experimental poet Christian Bok is the author of books including
<i>Crystallography</i>, a pataphysical encyclopedia, <i>Eunoia, </i>a
lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters, and
<i>Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science</i>.
<i>Crystallography</i> was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for
Best Poetic Debut and <i>Eunoia</i>, the best-selling Canadian poetry
book of all time, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. His
conceptual artwork has appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New
York City as part of the exhibit <i>Poetry Plastique</i>. He is a
professor at the University of Calgary.<br>
For more information about and examples of Christian Bok’s work please
visit:<br>
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<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok/">
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok/</a><br>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B%C3%B6k<br>
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