My Works, Ye Mighty

Christian Bök offers his reflections on his imaginative writing projects.

My Works, Ye Mighty expands on Christian Bök's conceptual writing projects The Kazimir Effect and The Xenotext in which he seeks to engineer a deathless bacterium so that its DNA might become an archive that stores a poem for eternity. He pairs his meditations on these works with an abundance of imagery. This essay, based on Bök's writer-in-residence presentation at Athabasca University in Canada, is accompanied by a new poem written especially for this book.