Eunoia (2001) is an anthology of univocalics by Canadian poet Christian Bök. Each chapter is written using words limited to consonants and a single vowel, producing sentences like: "Hassan can, at a handclap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal". [1]

Christian Bök, FRSC (/ bʊk /; born August 10, 1966, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. He was born "Christian Book", but uses "Bök" as a pseudonym.

Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes. [1] Eunoia is a work by poet Christian Bök consisting of five chapters, each one using only one vowel. In the science-fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict, Eunoia is …

1999年1月19日 · 'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is lyrical, O is jocular, U is obscene.

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This excerpt is from a book-length poem called Eunoia that has five chapters, each one corresponding to a single vowel. (Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five vowels.) What does “eunoia” mean? What do you think the relationship is between the word eunoia and the experiment of this book?

Eunoia, the shortest word in English to contain all five vowels, means “beautiful thinking” (103), and the book is written as a “univocal lipogram” that is “inspired by the exploits of Oulipo [...] the avant-garde coterie renowned for its literary experimentation with extreme formalistic constraints” (103). The risk of such ...

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram. The word 'eunoia, ' which...

Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following, garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following, garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin Poetry Prize. The original edition was never released in the U.S., but it has already been a bestseller in Canada and the U.K. (published by Canongate Books), where it was listed as one of the ...