Wednesday, February 27, 2013
you know
from Chapter O
(for Yoko Ono)
Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books.
Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold book-
worms. 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: ob-
long whorls, rococo scrolls – both on worn morocco.
Christian Bök
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clever
ReplyDeletei wonder if the is a book of E or of A?
yes
ReplyDeletechristian bok is a canadian word genius
his work EUNOIA is his effort to write poems
wherein every word contains a consistent vowel
he's the guy who presumed to insert words into a genome structure
with the hope of deriving a complete poem
let me see if i can get the link
here
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/search/label/Christian%20B%C3%B6k
john might appreciate the audacity of this
i'm amazed at how serious the audience is
Relentless, the rebel peddles these theses, even when vexed peers deem the new precepts ‘mere dreck’. 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 – the emergent repetend: the letter E. We jeer; we jest. We express resentment. We detest these depthless pretenses – these present-tense verbs, expressed pell-mell. We prefer genteel speech, where sense redeems senselessness.
ReplyDeletechristian bok (w/umlaut)
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