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The Xenotext: Book 2

By Christian Bök

The Xenotext: Book 2

By Christian Bök

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2025-06-03
Publication Date:
2025-06-03
Publisher:
Coach House Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1552454983
ISBN13:
9781552454985
Weight:
236 g
Height:
125 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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