[Purple-Blurb] Christian Bök reads Thursday, 6pm, 6-120

[Nick Montfort]

Purple Blurbers,

Please join us for the last reading of the semester -- a dynamic 
presentation by sound poet, language inventor, book artist, and author of 
the marvelous constrained composition Eunoia ...

   Christian Bök

   Thursday May 3
   6-120
   6pm

Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), 
a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial 
Award, and of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of 
experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for 
Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial languages for two 
television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter 
Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso 
performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt 
Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of 
Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky 
Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök is 
currently a Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

As always, Purple Blurb readings are free, open to the public, and do not 
require reservations.

A related event is the Unbound symposium the next day, May 4:

http://futurebook.mit.edu

Finally, Christian will be reading with Amaranth Borsuk and with me (Nick 
Montfort) at:

   Lorem Ipsum Books
   1299 Cambridge Street
   Inman Square
   Cambridge, MA

   Saturday, May 7
   7pm

It is typical to head out together for drinks and/or dinner after Purple 
Blurb readings; on Thursday, our reader (and organizer, and founder of the 
series) cannot do so. However, Christian, Amaranth, and I will be going 
out after our Inman Square reading on Saturday.

  -Nick