Christian Bok tries to become a Scientific Poet to be the first one ever in that category. His experimental research is to implant a poem into an organism's
(Deinococcus Radiodurans) DNA , using some biochemical methods. He expects in return that micro organism would reply to his poem by a poem. It means that organism can produce proteins consists of a song and then it can be decoded into english language. Its a nine year long project that still has to be completed.
What I think of this project is if it is completed successfully, that would be a phenomenal success in the history of science and poetry. In the first hand, I wonder how a poet could even come up with an idea like that.
In my view, the poets are people with artistic skills which they use to write poems. But I have never come across a poet who thought to experiment something like Bok did. Its an interesting concept in which he believes to create some microorganism which can produce songs. For me thats simply mind-blowing. I can't even express how I feel about this. Its simply an awesome concept.
