Book description
"Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Boek has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials."-The Guardian
Internationally best-selling poet Christian Boek…
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1 author picked The Xenotext as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
On top of the excellent wordsmithing, the concept and the execution of encoding poetry into a deathless bacterium in the hopes of having a human composition survive the death of our sun is one of the most interesting and exhilarating projects ever.
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