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Christian Bök--
chboks.com/content--

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everything you wanted to know
about Christian Bök but were

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afraid to ask.

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uber.com/papers.

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Poetryfoundation.org/harriet.

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Epcbuffalo.edu/a
uthors/bok/nickle.

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Lumiere.net.nz/reader.

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Libraryobabel.blogspot.com

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"One-- aesthetic
criticism has, of course,

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remarked at length upon
the role of the nude

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in the history of
art, describing

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the ways in which
the body of the woman

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has become a cipher for
both the idealized values

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of formal beauty
and the subaltern

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values of erotic desire.

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The pinups here suggest
the extreme degrees

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to which a poet might
begin to fetishize

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the sensual, optical
appeals of language itself,

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admiring the contours
of letter forms

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in a manner reminiscent of
obsessive libidinal fixations.

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The letters in the caption
of the usual porno image

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have thus begun to displace
the nude body, behaving like it

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rather than referring to it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Two-- such a cartouche is a seed
pod of cocoons, ready to burst

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open like the front
cover of a book,

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pollinating us
with larval spores

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that we, in turn,
incubate and transmit.

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Three-- innovation
in art no longer

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differs from the kind of
manufactured obsolescence

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that has come to
justify advertisements

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for improved products.

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Four-- I do not write anecdotes
about my personal life,

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largely because I do not
think that such storytelling

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is going to make much of an
epistemological contribution

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to our understanding
of poetics itself.

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Five-- Langpo has pushed
poetry as far as poetry can go.

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Now poetry must find new
avenues of thought beyond poetry

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itself, seeking
inspiration, for example,

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in the work of architects
and musicians, scientists

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and engineers.

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Six-- Lewis Carroll, I
believe, has Humpty Dumpty say,

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'Take care of the sounds
and the sense will take care

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of itself.'

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[LAUGHTER]

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Seven-- I still feel
I have a very long way

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to go in order to boost the
profile of avant garde poetry

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among a mainstream readership."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Please welcome Mr. Bök.

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[APPLAUSE]

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