I have never heard of anything such before and was really amazed to see how technology has affected poetry. The work that I am talking about is called "The Xenotext" by Christian Bok.
Bok is an English professor at the University of Calgary who presented his latest experiments:poems encoded in bacterial DNA.( "Simon Fraser University Engaging the World." Experimental poet puts poems into DNA. Web. 10 June 2015).
Bok’s goal, is to fix a poem into the DNA of an bacteria or virus. Bok's cypher code matches one letter of the alphabet uniquely to another letter which allows him to write poems that read back in coded English. For instance, "Any style of life is prim" comes back through the cypher as "The fairy is rosy of glow."( "Simon Fraser University Engaging the World." Experimental poet puts poems into DNA. Web. 21 May 2015).
The image shows how he uses alphabets and encodes them to create poetry:
Image source: Experimental Poet Puts Poems into DNA. Digital image. Https://www.sfu.ca/vpresearch/research-news/2013/christian-bok-dna-poetry.html. N.p., n.d. Web.
To read further about this please visit the link: https://www.sfu.ca/vpresearch/research-news/2013/christian-bok-dna-poetry.html
Bok is an English professor at the University of Calgary who presented his latest experiments:poems encoded in bacterial DNA.( "Simon Fraser University Engaging the World." Experimental poet puts poems into DNA. Web. 10 June 2015).
Bok’s goal, is to fix a poem into the DNA of an bacteria or virus. Bok's cypher code matches one letter of the alphabet uniquely to another letter which allows him to write poems that read back in coded English. For instance, "Any style of life is prim" comes back through the cypher as "The fairy is rosy of glow."( "Simon Fraser University Engaging the World." Experimental poet puts poems into DNA. Web. 21 May 2015).
The image shows how he uses alphabets and encodes them to create poetry:
To read further about this please visit the link: https://www.sfu.ca/vpresearch/research-news/2013/christian-bok-dna-poetry.html
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