[Yale-readings] Poetry Reading: Christian Bok, November 1 at Beinecke

[Nancy Kuhl]

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: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com. The Beinecke 
Library is located at 121 Wall Street, New Haven.

Canadian experimental poet Christian Bok is the author of books including 
Crystallography, a pataphysical encyclopedia, Eunoia, a lipogram that uses 
only one vowel in each of its five chapters, and Pataphysics: The Poetics 
of an Imaginary Science. Crystallography was nominated for the Gerald 
Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut and Eunoia, 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 Poetry Plastique. He is a professor at the 
University of Calgary.
For more information about and examples of Christian Bok's work please visit:

<http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok/>http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B%C3%B6k
<http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bok.html>http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bok.html


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