KaiBorg will be playing with Christian Bök tonight, 8 pm, at Conrad Prebys Music Center.
Bök Bio:
Canadian experimental poet Christian Bok is the author of books including Crystallography, a pataphysical encyclopedia, Eunoia (Coach House Books/Canongate), a lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters, and Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern University Press.) 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B%C3%B6k
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bok.html
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