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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- Canada
- Signed By
- N/A
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- N/A
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof, Advance Reader's Copy, Advance Review Copy, Advance Reader's Edition, Advance Reviewer Copy
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 2020s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Uncorrected Proof, Advance Reader's Copy, Advance Review Copy, Advance Reader's Edition, Advance Reviewer Copy
- ISBN
- 9781552454985
- Book Title
- Xenotext: Book 2
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2025
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Poetry, Science
- Topic
- Biotechnology, Experiments & Projects, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Weight
- 8.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Coach House Books
ISBN-10
1552454983
ISBN-13
9781552454985
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23070940805
Product Key Features
Book Title
Xenotext: Book 2
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Biotechnology, Experiments & Projects, Subjects & Themes / General
Genre
Poetry, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"With The Xenotext, Book 2 , Bök now ends a 25-year project with even stricter constraints: embedding a poem in the genes of a living bacterium that, when genetically transcribed, produces a corresponding poem, both of which can be genetically replicated without error, ad infinitum." - Tom Bowden, The Book Beat Praise for the author: " The Xenotext is equal parts revelation and revolution. Absolutely staggering." - Peter Watts "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian "Christian Bok's The Xenotext , a poem in DNA mutation, continues his attempts to redefine what poetry even is." - The National Post "Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year." - The Times "A resounding success...brilliant." - The Guardian, "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian on Xenotext: Book One "Christian Bok's The Xenotext , a poem in DNA mutation, continues his attempts to redefine what poetry even is." - the National Post on Xenotext: Book One "Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year." - The Times on Eunoia "A resounding success...brilliant." - The Guardian on Eunoia "'Brilliant...beautiful and strange." - BBC Radio 4 on Eunoia, "While civilizations in the future may look back upon the germ that contains The Xenotext and see there one of the last vestiges of our culture, The Xenotext today forces us to consider the "poetics" of the genetic code and, by extension, the poetry that might be buried within the origins of life itself." - Dashiel Carrera, Los Angeles Review of Books "[W]ell worth the price just for the the acrobatics and anagrams and sonnets, for the way it remixes science and fiction and the classic canon." - Peter Watts "With The Xenotext, Book 2 , Bök now ends a 25-year project with even stricter constraints: embedding a poem in the genes of a living bacterium that, when genetically transcribed, produces a corresponding poem, both of which can be genetically replicated without error, ad infinitum." - Tom Bowden, The Book Beat Praise for the author: " The Xenotext is equal parts revelation and revolution. Absolutely staggering." - Peter Watts "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian "Christian Bok's The Xenotext , a poem in DNA mutation, continues his attempts to redefine what poetry even is." - The National Post "Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year." - The Times "A resounding success...brilliant." - The Guardian, "[W]ell worth the price just for the the acrobatics and anagrams and sonnets, for the way it remixes science and fiction and the classic canon." - Peter Watts "With The Xenotext, Book 2 , Bök now ends a 25-year project with even stricter constraints: embedding a poem in the genes of a living bacterium that, when genetically transcribed, produces a corresponding poem, both of which can be genetically replicated without error, ad infinitum." - Tom Bowden, The Book Beat Praise for the author: " The Xenotext is equal parts revelation and revolution. Absolutely staggering." - Peter Watts "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian "Christian Bok's The Xenotext , a poem in DNA mutation, continues his attempts to redefine what poetry even is." - The National Post "Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year." - The Times "A resounding success...brilliant." - The Guardian, Praise for the author: "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian "Christian Bok's The Xenotext , a poem in DNA mutation, continues his attempts to redefine what poetry even is." - The National Post "Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year." - The Times "A resounding success...brilliant." - The Guardian, Praise for the author: " The Xenotext is equal parts revelation and revolution. Absolutely staggering." - Peter Watts "Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian "Christian Bok's The Xenotext , a poem in DNA mutation, continues his attempts to redefine what poetry even is." - The National Post "Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year." - The Times "A resounding success...brilliant." - The Guardian
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The first work of 'living poetry' in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia. Christian Bök in Book 1 of The Xenotext outlined his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium, thereby writing a text durable enough to outlive any apocalypse, surviving until the death of the Sun itself. After more than two decades of effort, Bök has, at last, succeeded at this incredible experiment, and Book 2 of The Xenotext situates his enterprise within the deep time of the cosmos. Bök rehearses some of the techniques likely to be used in the future to preserve the cultural heritage of our civilization against a potential planetary disaster (be it thermonuclear warfare or astrophysical barrage); moreover, Bök speculates that, buried within the biochemistry of Life itself, there really does exist an innate beauty, if not a hidden poetry - a literal message that we might read, if we deign to seek it., Christian Bök in Book 1 of The Xenotext outlined his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium, thereby writing a text durable enough to outlive any apocalypse, surviving until the death of the Sun itself. After more than two decades of effort, Bök has, at last, succeeded at this incredible experiment, and Book 2 of The Xenotext situates his enterprise within the deep time of the cosmos. Bök rehearses some of the techniques likely to be used in the future to preserve the cultural heritage of our civilization against a potential planetary disaster (be it thermonuclear warfare or astrophysical barrage); moreover, Bök speculates that, buried within the biochemistry of Life itself, there really does exist an innate beauty, if not a hidden poetry - a literal message that we might read, if we deign to seek it.
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- a***t (794)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseShipping: Shipped the day of the sale; arrived in 5 days in my city, but then the post office sent my package to Colorado. It took another 10 days to get delivered. Packaging: as expected As described: described as NEW. The books do look NEW until you at the page edges which are tanned to almost yellow. Books were probably never read, but they probably sat in sunlight for a long time. Value: Despite yellow-tan page edges, these books were a great value.Lot Of 4 Inspector Maigret Novels (Trade PB) by Georges Simenon - BRAND NEW! (#256759728931)
- s***3 (554)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived in good condition and matched the description accurately. Shipping was timely and packaging was appropriate. No issues with the transaction — everything went smoothly. Would purchase from this seller again.Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima (1994, Paperback) *LN* (#256968098396)