Christian Bok

I was also really impressed by Christian Bok's performance. I thought he was a really interesting performer and it was definitely a different kind of poetry than I am used to hearing. Before his visit I had never considered some of his forms of sound poetry as legitimate poetry before and in particular, beat boxing. I never knew that you could write a score for beat boxing and in that sense it could be considered a poem. During our workshop and just knowing how much I struggled to mater one line of sound poetry, i can see now that a lot more work and artistry goes into both creating and performing sound poetry than i ever actually considered. I think it would be really interesting to try and experiment with sound poetry, but after hearing some of it, I am not sure I would even know where to begin? I also thought his excerpts from his book Eunoia were really intriguing and I especially thought his comment that each vowel seemed to have a personality completely unique and different from any other of the vowels was especially interesting. Overall I was really impressed by his visit both from his work and his ability to perform it.