Christian Bök: Orpheus and Eurydice S2 E8
Meditations with Zohar
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The Struggles of a 12-Year Poetry Project
The Xenotext is a 12-year poetry project that involves encoding poems into actual bacteria. The poet hopes the poem could survive in an event where all of humanity and perhaps even Earth are wiped out. "My work tends to polarize people's opinions," he says, adding: 'I would prefer to think I'm a genius'
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