Poetry. Fiction. Cross-genre. EUNOIA, winner of the 2002 Griffen Poetry Prize, is "a novel," according to Samuel R. Delany, "that will drive everybody sane." A national best-seller in Canada and an international sensation, EUNOIA is now published together with the compact disc. Follow along as Bok performs with acrobatic precision the full text of this exemplary monument for 21st-century poetry. 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.