Last week I wrote about the complementary lost arts of letter writing and handwriting. Literary correspondence, once such a venerable genre, just hasn’t been the same since the advent of e-mail and text messages. And yet the ep...
Madcap poetry collection Eunoia by Christian Bök, a Canadian experimental poet, is a major linguistic achievement. Published in 2001, it took him seven years to write and was (eventually) a bestseller in both Canada (where it w...