My Works, Ye Mighty [Paperback]

Christian Bök offers his reflections on his imaginative writing projects.

My Works, Ye Mightyexpands on Christian Bök’s conceptual writing projectsThe Kazimir EffectandThe Xenotextin which he seeks to engineer a deathless bacterium so that its DNA might become an archive that stores a poem for eternity. He pairs his meditations on these works with an abundance of imagery. This essay, based on Bök’s writer-in-residence presentation at Athabasca University in Canada, is accompanied by a new poem written especially for this book.Christian Bökis the author of bestsellerEunoia. He is one of the founders of Conceptualism and has earned many accolades for his recitals of “sound-poems.” He has starred in operas and films and has exhibited his artworks at galleries including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, The Power Plant in Toronto, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. Bök is a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada and is professor of fine art at Leeds Beckett University.