Eunoia - by Christian Bök (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><br>Stunning and masterful in its execution, <i>Eunoia</i> is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)</strong></p> <p><strong>Stunning and masterful in its execution, <i>Eunoia</i> is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram.</strong></p> <p>The word 'eunoia, ' which literally means 'beautiful thinking, ' is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l'Ouvroir de LittÃ(c)rature Potentielle), a French writers' group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, <i>Eunoia</i> is a five-chapter book in which each chapteris a univocal lipogram - the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic, the O jocular and obscene, the E elegiac and epic (including a retelling of the Iliad!).</p> <p>Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, <i>Eunoia</i> has developed a cult following, garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin Poetry Prize. The original edition was never released in the U.S., but it has already been a bestseller in Canada and the U.K. (published by Canongate Books), where it was listed as one of the <i>Times'</i> top ten books of 2008.</p> <p>This new edition features several new but related poems by Christian Bok and an expanded afterword.</p> <p>'<i>Eunoia</i> is a novel that will drive everybody sane.' --Samuel Delany</p> <p>'<i>Eunoia</i> takes the lipogram and rendersit obsolete.' --Kenneth Goldsmith</p> <p>'A marvellous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes.' --Harry Mathews</p> <p>'An exemplary monument for 21st century poetry.' --Charles Bernstein</p> <p>'Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.' --<i>The Times</i></p> <p>'A resounding success ... brilliant.' --<i>The Guardian</i></p> <p>'Brilliant ... beautiful and strange.' --Today Programme, BBC Radio 4</p> <p>'Impressive.' --<i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p> <p>'No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel ... playful and irreverent ... charming.' --<i>Metro</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>'<em>Eunoia</em> is a novel that will drive everybody sane.' - Samuel Delany, author of <em>The Einstein Intersection</em> <p/>'A marvellous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes.' - Harry Mathews, author of <em>The New Tourism</em> and <em>My Life in the CIA</em> <p/>'An exemplary monument for 21st century poetry.' - Charles Bernstein, author of <em>Attack of the Difficult Poems</em> and <em>Girly Man</em> <p/>'Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.' - The <em> Times</em> <p/>'A resounding success ... brilliant.' - The <em>Guardian</em> <p/>'Brilliant ... beautiful and strange.' - Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 <p/>'Impressive.' - <em>Sunday Telegraph</em> <p/>'No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel ... playful and irreverent ... charming.' - <em>Metro</em><br><br><br><br>'<i>Eunoia</i> is a novel that will drive everybody sane.' - Samuel Delany, author of <i>The Einstein Intersection</i> <p/>'A marvellous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes.' - Harry Mathews, author of <i>The New Tourism</i> and <i>My Life in the CIA</i> <p/>'An exemplary monument for 21st century poetry.' - Charles Bernstein, author of <i>Attack of the Difficult Poems</i> and <i>Girly Man</i> <p/>'Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.' - The <i> Times</i> <p/>'A resounding success ... brilliant.' - The <i>Guardian</i> <p/>'Brilliant ... beautiful and strange.' - Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 <p/>'Impressive.' - <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> <p/>'No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel ... playful and irreverent ... charming.' - <i>Metro</i><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Christian Bök is the author of <i>Crystallography</i> (Coach House Press, 1994), a 'pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut, and <i>'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science</i> (Northwestern University Press, 2001). His book <i>Eunoia</i> won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. Bök has created artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry's <i>Earth: Final Conflict</i> and Peter Benchley's <i>Amazon</i>. His conceptual artwork has appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit <i>Poetry Plastique</i>. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary.
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