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The idea of Denyse O'Leary writing about Christian Bök makes my head explode.
Christian Bök -- O'Leary, like her source, relieves his last name of its umlaut -- is a brilliant Canadian poet. His book Eunoia is an astonishment, a book-length prose poem in which each chapter is restricted to using a single vowel. You can hear him read Eunoia here.
The message O'Leary takes from Bök's experiment in DNA poetry is all too weird. As his work attests, he is intensely interested in coding, in forced patterns, in writing done by various applied constraints. He's a kind of Houdini of poetic escape. O'Leary's message is essentially: if the code doesn't stick over time, DNA can only decay, therefore design. But the code is not meant to convey any sort of use.
What if some new function emerged from a descendent of his poem-code? Then Denyse would say The code was designed, function emerges, therefore design.
Hell, I don't know what to say about this. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea of Bök and O'Leary even in the same sentence.
By the way, listen to him read Eunoia. It's amazing.
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