Christian Bök

thumb|Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold book-worms Christian Bök, FRSC (born August 10, 1966, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Quotes Eunoia (2001) Toronto: Coach House Books Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, rat-tat-tat. Vaward attacks blast apart hangars and tarmacs: blam, blam. Chapter A (for Hans Arp) Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her reserves, depleted. Chapter E (for René Crevel) Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is spinning in thrilling whirligigs. Which blind spirit is whining in this whistling din? [...] Is it this thin, sickish girl, twitching in fits, whilst writing things in spirit-writing? If it isn't — it is I; it is I... Chapter I (for Dick Higgins) Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth. Dons who work for proctors or provosts do not fob off school to work on crosswords, nor do dons go off to dorm rooms to loll on cots. Dons go crosstown to look for bookshops known to stock lots of top-notch goods: cookbooks, workbooks – room on room of how-to books for jocks (how to jog, how to box), books on pro sports: golf or polo. Old colophons on school-books from schoolrooms sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls – both on worn morocco. Chapter O (for Yoko Ono) Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck up mush plus muck — dung lumps (plus clumps), turd hunks (plus chunks). Chapter U (for Zhu Yu) External links "Christian Bök: Excerpts from Eunoia", Poems and Poetics (July 10, 2009) Category:Poets from Canada Category:1966 births Category:Living people