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Christian Bök Quotes

born 1966 Canada

Christian Bök, FRSC (born August 10, 1966, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her reserves, depleted.

Eunoia (2001)

Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, rat-tat-tat. Vaward attacks blast apart hangars and tarmacs: blam, blam.

Eunoia (2001)

Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck up mush plus muck — dung lumps (plus clumps), turd hunks (plus chunks).

Eunoia (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christian Bök (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.