"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 Bok has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." "The Guardian"

Internationally best-selling poet Christian Bok has spent more than ten years writing what promises to be the first example of "living poetry." After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of "E. coli," Bok is on the verge of enciphering a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of an unkillable bacterium...