Poetry. Fiction. Cross-genre. Bok has delighted awestruck readers everywhere by crafting five stunning stories - each of which uses only one vowel! - and, in the process, he has gone on to claim the prestigious Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence (2002). Sit back and listen to the "Dada bard" himself as he performs with acrobatic precisions the full text of his bestselling masterpiece. Bok's CRYSTALLOGRAPHY is also available from SPD.

Author City: CALGARY, AB CAN

Christian Bök is the author of CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (Coach House Books, 1994), a "pataphysical encyclopedia" nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut, and Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern University Press, 2001). His book EUNOIA won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. Bök has created artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon. His conceptual artwork has appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary.