The “The Xenotext” is the result of an 11-year, $120,000 project by experimental poet Christian Bök. To create it, Bök picked up the requisite scientific chops, studying graduate-level biochemistry, genetic engineering, and proteomics. According to Maclean’s:
“A short stanza enciphered into a strin...
Any style of life
is prim
The faery is rosy
of glow