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Author: BOK, CHRISTIAN
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Bok, Christian    Poet's Biography
17 poems available by this author


AND SOMETIMES    Poem Text    
First Line: Syzygy pyx
Last Line: Hhh my zzz
Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary


AND SOMETIMES       
First Line: Syzygy pyx
Last Line: Myrrh %my rhythms
Subject(s): Language


CHAPTER 1    Poem Text     Recitation by Author
First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin
Last Line: Finish writing this writ, signing it, kind sir: nihil, dicit, fini
Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary


CHAPTER A, SELS.       
First Line: Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A dada bard damns
Last Line: Rasp catatas. A lass as sad as a swan twangs a glass harp
Subject(s): Language


CHAPTER E, SELS.       
First Line: Western men revere the greek legends. We retell them
Last Line: The green gems, les gemmes vertes, bedeck her velvet flesh
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


CHAPTER I, SELS.       
First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin
Last Line: Frills drift in mizzling twilight. I think: night is nigh
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


CHAPTER O, SELS.       
First Line: Loops, hoops, or whorls form lots of fonts to jot down
Last Line: No song of solomon conforms to crossword protocols
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


CRYSTALLIZATION, SELS       
First Line: Acrylic is to zinc as lycra is %to talc. Catalytic nitro
Last Line: No sin on tan is cos. I coin %canasta. Crystallization


DIAMONDS        Recitation by Author
Subject(s): Diamonds; Fathers


NOYTA CCCP        Recitation by Author
Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary


TEN MAPS OF SARDONIC WIT    Poem Text     Recitation by Author


THE GREAT ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE    Poem Text    


VOILE       
First Line: Anywhere near blank rage
Last Line: Hollow, my grave ovule does %decide you


VOWELS    Poem Text     Recitation by Author
First Line: Loveless vessels
Last Line: We lose
Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary


VOWELS       
First Line: Loveless vessels
Last Line: So level %wlves evolve
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


W (A USER'S MANUAL)    Poem Text    
First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use
Last Line: At a vowel at a powwow in between sawteeth
Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary


W (A USER'S MANUAL)       
First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use
Last Line: Where u and you become a tautonym, a continnuum
Subject(s): Language; Vowels