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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">This is one of the notes that got bumped when Blogger went south for two days. Christian B</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">ö</span><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">k suggested on Twitter that I&#8217;d gotten some of the details wrong in my description of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Xenotext </i>project on Tuesday, so I dropped him a noted &amp; asked him to correct any misimpressions. Here is his reply. I&#8217;ve standardized the use of dashes &amp; italics to fit with the blog, but the ellipses belong to Christian &amp; nothing has been deleted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.5in">No worries, Ron &#8212; my comment about the errors are actually quibbles (and such errors always underline for me the difficulties of explaining the project to my audience in an abbreviated, but comprehensible, manner--meaning, in effect, that I have to improve the quality of my patter...). I have done my best to update my peers about my progress on the project so that everyone has some idea about how the process works--but because most of my friends are not very immersed in the language of science, they often get a fact or two wrong when trying to rearticulate my news:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.5in">Your blog suggests that I have actually brought the project &quot;to fruition&quot; in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">D. radiodurans</i>-- when in fact, I have yet to complete this stage of the exercise. I have, in fact, designed my gene X-P13, and in order to make sure that it &quot;works,&quot; I have implanted it into the genome of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">E. coli</i>, a standard organism for such engineering. I have, in effect, conducted a &quot;test-run&quot; in order to ensure that all my projections and simulations are, in fact, correct, before actually implanting the poem into the final extremophile. I have hit a big milestone, though. I have demonstrated that, when implanted into a bacterium, my gene (which enciphers a poem) does, in fact, cause the organism to write a viable, benign protein in response -- a protein that, in turn, enciphers yet another text. I am now the first poet in literary history to have engineered a microbe to write poetry -- but I have yet to insert this mechanism into the target creature.... I have actually demonstrated the viability of my text, and the last step is now a kind of aesthetic formality.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.5in">I might note that, while your posting suggests that I have a numerous scientists working on my behalf behind the scenes, I have, in fact, done all the genetic engineering and proteomic engineering myself, designing and optimizing the gene on my own, while working out the simulations for the resultant, foldable protein, using my own academic resources. I have called upon a commercial lab to build the gene for me--(because, nowadays, obtaining a gene is as easy as ordering a pizza...) -- and the university lab has implanted the gene into the microbe for me. I have, so far, relied on the advice of two scientists, a graduate student, and a lab technician for support -- and they have all been extremely helpful. I have always emphasized that, for me, the artistic exercise requires that I, in fact, become a molecular biologist through a dilettantish, autodidactic process. I think that the scientists are impressed that, despite being a scholar in literature, I have nevertheless trained myself to be a functional biochemist.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">A thought about Christian B</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">ö</span><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">k&#8217;s epic act of minimalism taken to its logical conclusion, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/editorial.asp"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">Xenotext</span></a>, </i>has been haunting me since the Bury Text Festival. As I understand <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Xenotext, </i>it&#8217;s an attempt to <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">imprint a short lyric poem into the DNA of a particular single-celled bacterium</span></a> in such a way that will cause the bacterium to create a benign protein that, when &#8220;read&#8221; in the same &#8220;language&#8221; as it was written, would generate a second short poem, the words, order, lines &amp; line breaks of which Bök also already knows. Because the bacterium he has selected for this act of signage is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Deinococcus radiodurans</i>, an extremophile, a bacterium that lives at &#8211; indeed is happiest in, to the degree that one might assign bacteria emotions &#8211; exceptionally hot &amp; caustic environments</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">&#185;</span><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">, it is one that could conceivably survive at least up to an explosion of the sun terminated life as we know it. It is in this sense an attempt to create an immortal poem, one that could easily outlast not only the English language &amp; humanity itself, but even sentient life on the planet on which it was originally inscribed. In Bury, B</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">ö</span><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">k characterized <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-untimeliness-of-the-xenotext/"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">Xenotext</span></a></i> as the first such attempt at literary immortality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">So here&#8217;s what haunts me: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">How do we know?</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">If, for example, one Canadian might conceive of such a project, how do we know that elsewhere in the universe other species have not likewise thought to imprint their deepest thoughts onto compliant organisms? Further, as we are now starting to discover archeological evidence of molecular life on various modes of stellar debris, why might some civilization not have thought even to create some sort of symbol akin to <a href="http://lifeorigin.free.fr/jpg/message_extra-terrestres_NASA.jpg"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:&quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;">the NASA &#8220;hey there&#8221; message</span></a></span> shipped off out into the universe awhile back. Maybe one of those fossilized bacteria in the asteroid belt is its own message from some Christian B<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">ö</span>k type figure on an inner planet of some other star? (I refuse to imagine Jar <span class="SpellE">Jar</span> <span class="SpellE">Binks</span> in a purple shirt &amp; tie.)</p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Christian Bök&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">String Variables</i> is one of those
initially deceptive projects in that you begin to read the two minuscule
chapbooks <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Off</i> that are gathered together (with a band of paper, not string,
alas) in this micropress project, a press run of 60 copies issued jointly as <span class="SpellE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">openpalmseries</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>2.5 &amp; 2.6 and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">umlaut machine </i>nos. 6 &amp; 7, &amp; it is only when, starting the
second volume &#8211; I read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On</i> before I
did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Off, </i>although I would wager that
this effect will work just as well if the little volumes are read in the
opposite order &#8211; you begin to recognize the uncanny similarities. Here is the
first page of <span class="GramE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="GramE">errata</span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>tattoo<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>no tone<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>sombrero<br />
<br />
semantic or epic<br />
to graphic<br />
I <span class="SpellE">clemecy</span> sty<br />
<span class="SpellE">esperanto</span><br />
nympho nemesis<br />
terrible<br />
pro systematic<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>on icing<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>lot<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>talisman<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="SpellE">i</span>
fester<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>rat<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="SpellE">i</span>
corridor<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>chest<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>ration<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>so famous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And here is roughly the same
amount of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">tex</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">t from the first page of <span class="GramE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Off</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="GramE">err</span> at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>too not<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>one <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>somber<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">rose</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span class="SpellE">manticore</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">pictograph</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">icicle</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">man</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> cyst
yes per<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">antonym</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
phoneme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">rib</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
leprosy stem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="GramE">at</span> iconic<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>in glottal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="GramE">is</span>
manifest<br />
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erratic or rid<br />
orchestrations<br />
of a mouse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Letter by letter, these two
texts are all but identical, so much so that I will wager (this seems to be a
betting blog) that &#8220;<span class="SpellE">clemecy</span>&#8221; in <span class="GramE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On</i></span> is in fact a typo and should
read &#8220;<span class="SpellE">clemancy</span>,&#8221; even though the latter is itself a
misspelling. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reading</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> the two works together &#8211; I put a couple of hours
between each volume &#8211; is an almost eerie experience. There&#8217;s certainly no way
that I can tell whether <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On</i> was the
&#8220;master&#8221; text &amp; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Off</i> the &#8220;slave,&#8221;
the one forced to fit the primary draft of the other, or the other way &#8216;round.
Nor can I see any simple way for the imagination to derive <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">systematic </i>out of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">leprosy
stem / at iconic</i> even though, looking closely, I can see that it&#8217;s there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2381133829">Eunoia</a>,
</i>Bök&#8217;s book of aggressive vowel constraints, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">String Variables </i>is both a written work that is fun to read aloud
&amp; the result of an almost unimaginably rigorous formal process &#8211; he is
clearly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the </i>master of post-Oulipo
poetics. Technically speaking, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">String
Variables</i> is a misnomer for the process by which this work must have been
composed. In programming, the little I understand of it, you have both
variables &amp; constants &#8211; no great theoretical problem there &#8211; either of
which might be composed of numeric data or of &#8220;strings,&#8221; in which numeric data
can be joined with alphabetic and other symbols. So we have strings here
alright, but it is only the spaces &amp; linebreaks that vary. (Thus the
paradigm <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On/Off</i> refers to the states
of electrical current that are then translated into a binary system to generate
all such information.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Works like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eunoia </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">String Variables</i> envision a model of language that no
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Variables</i> almost looks as if one could simply take a great block of type
and divide it into clusters and &#8211; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Voila! </i>&#8211;
<span class="GramE">words</span> &amp; phrases would just &#8220;naturally&#8221; appear. The
reality of course is infinitely more complex &amp; part of Bök&#8217;s genius lies
precisely in making it look so deceptively easy. While Bök&#8217;s work fits into the
larger context of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Toronto</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s grammatologically-inflected post-avant poetry
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relates at some level to the work of Americans such as Jackson Mac Low, Bök
brings a unique flavor to it all &#8211; exactly that combination of inconceivable
rigor &amp; utter simplicity. I&#8217;ve never read a substantial work of his that I
didn&#8217;t </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">wis</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">h I&#8217;d written myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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text. This fallacy of the well-wrought urn fails to acknowledge that
&#8220;well-made&#8221; poems are little more than the bland pastel background against
which important poetry, such as Bök&#8217;s, is written. In fact, if one were to look
at the texts of, say, Blake, Whitman, Dickinson, Pound, Williams, Stein, Olson,
Duncan, Ginsberg, et al, what one notices, over &amp; over, is that it is the
rough spots as much as anything else that tells us we are in the presence of
significant work. This is true of fiction also, from Melville to Joyce &amp;
Faulkner, and to Kerouac, Pynchon, <span class="GramE">Delaney</span> &amp;
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emerge on the scene. You can see it in Lee Ann Brown, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Linh Dinh</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Eleni Sikelianos, and </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lisa Jarnot</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, to name four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
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they can, but rather that obsessiveness with smoothing out the dissonance of
the creative process is ultimately a destructive impulse, born of a decorative
conception of literature. Yet it is precisely this process that is inscribed as
the core activity of so many creative writing classes wherever they are taught,
people sitting around in small circles, suggesting how this or that line break
might be tweaked, this word choice &#8220;strengthened.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1977, Curtis Faville self-published a brilliant &amp; troubling
collection of poems entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stanzas for
an Evening Out.</i> Faville (who these days runs the Compass Rose rare book
operation, one of the best for modern poetry: <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/home/COMPASSROSE/">http://www.abebooks.com/home/COMPASSROSE/</a>)
is/was an extraordinary student &amp; mimic of contemporary style, but also
someone who seems always to have felt a most charged &amp; ambivalent
relationship toward writers in his own generation as well as those who came
before. (No accident here that the first poem in the book is entitled &#8220;Second
Generation.&#8221;) I&#8217;ve always read that book&#8217;s title with the pun (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evening</i> as a verb) in the foreground. So
while I don&#8217;t share his cynical view of the state of writing (which may have
moderated over the past quarter century), I think that title captures the
problem as it confronts not only creative writing students, but so many poets
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Evened out</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> describes quite fairly what is wrong with poetry in
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>It is not simply the <span
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relentless, the rebel peddles these
theses, even when vexed peers deem the new precepts &#8216;mere <span class=SpellE>dreck</span>&#8217;.
The plebes resent newer verse; nevertheless, the rebel perseveres, never
deterred, never dejected, heedless, even when hecklers heckle the vehement
speeches. We feel perplexed whenever we see these excerpted sentences. We sneer
when we detect the clever scheme &#8211; the emergent <span class=SpellE>repetend</span>:
the letter E. We jeer; we jest. We express resentment. We detest these
depthless pretenses &#8211; these present-tense verbs, expressed pell-mell. We prefer
genteel speech, where sense redeems senselessness. (32)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>In addition to the evident
wit &amp; active sense of jest throughout, all winking meta-commentary, there
are just two small moments here (&#8220;hecklers heckle&#8221; and &#8220;sense redeems
senselessness&#8221;) in which a reiteration of root terms raises the possibility
that another line of attack might have been posed, e.g. &#8220;even when the hecklers&#8217;
specter severed speeches.&#8221; But this alternative (for example) adds one extra
character, and just might render the typesetting &#8211; every line in the title text
is justified so that no paragraph ends mid-line (this rule is adhered to also
in the Ubu.com version, which presents each paragraph in 10 lines as against
Bök&#8217;s book&#8217;s 13) &#8211; impossible. Add to this an awesome ear and, well, ease awes.
And it is precisely because Bök makes it all feel as natural as rain that makes
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