The Nucleobases

Christian Bok

doi:10.1386/jwcp.7.1.21_1

The Nucleobases

Christian Bok

CDU College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society

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Abstract

'The Nucleobases' is a modular, acrostic poem, written according to a burdensome constraint, in which the molecular structure of the nucleotides in DNA determines not only the selected lexicons (which, in this case, consist only of nine-letter words), but also their arrangement in the line. Each poem maps out a molecule, while conveying a pastoral sentence about the bees (doing so in honour of Virgil, the first of all poets to have a line of poetry enciphered into the genome of an organism.).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-26
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.7.1.21_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2014

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Bok, C. (2014). The Nucleobases. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 7(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.7.1.21_1

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