{"id":2438,"date":"2012-04-30T00:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:23:30","slug":"christian-bok-in-purple-blurb-thursday-6pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/04\/christian-bok-in-purple-blurb-thursday-6pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian B\u00f6k in Purple Blurb *Thursday* 6pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> Thanks to Francisco Ricardo, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/41548591\">a video of some of Christian&#8217;s Purple Blurb reading<\/a> is now online.<\/p>\n<p>The Spring 2012 Purple Blurb series comes to an end this week, not with a whimper, but with <b>Christian B\u00f6k!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Thursday May 3<br \/>\n  6-120<br \/>\n  6pm  <\/p>\n<p>Christian B\u00f6k is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994),<br \/>\n\u00a0a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial<br \/>\n\u00a0Award, and of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of<br \/>\n\u00a0experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for<br \/>\n\u00a0Poetic Excellence. B\u00f6k has created artificial languages for two<br \/>\n\u00a0television shows: Gene Roddenberry\u2019s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter<br \/>\n\u00a0Benchley\u2019s Amazon. B\u00f6k has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso<br \/>\n\u00a0performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt<br \/>\n\u00a0Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of<br \/>\n\u00a0Rubik\u2019s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky<br \/>\n\u00a0Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. B\u00f6k is<br \/>\n\u00a0currently a Professor of English at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the Boston area, and interested in radical play with language (why else would you have found this blog?) please come by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Thanks to Francisco Ricardo, a video of some of Christian&#8217;s Purple Blurb reading is now online. The Spring 2012 Purple Blurb series comes to an end this week, not with a whimper, but with Christian B\u00f6k! Thursday May 3 6-120 6pm Christian B\u00f6k is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), \u00a0a pataphysical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/04\/christian-bok-in-purple-blurb-thursday-6pm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christian B\u00f6k in Purple Blurb *Thursday* 6pm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,21,17,24,4,22,13],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-constraint","tag-digital","tag-gatherings","tag-poetry","tag-upcoming","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}