Tuned Droves
By Eric Baus
2009
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Poetry. In his follow-up to the acclaimed THE TO SOUND (Verse Press/Wave Books 2004), Eric Baus' second full-length poetry book is a continuation of his experimentation with the elongated lyric prose form. "In TUNED DROVES, there's a figure who discovers 'human or animal bones in the REM movements of babies.' As if that isn't fabulous enough, there's writing that's both prehensile and irreversible: a dismantled mouth that's capable of both a 'normal hello' and the subtly grotesque 'language of flags.' In this way, Eric Baus writes at the dark edge of an imaginary nation, collapsing us, with each climbing page, into an oral, incendiary architecture. As a poet, then, he's the flame-thrower, he's the one who says: catch"—Bhanu Kapil.
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Author
Eric Baus
Author · 5 books
Eric Baus is the author of Scared Text (Center for Literary Publishing, forthcoming 2011), The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books) and several chapbooks. He co-edits Marcel Press chapbooks with Andrea Rexilius and lives in Denver. Reviews of The To Sound: Double Room Rain Taxi Bookslut Octopus Reviews of Tuned Droves: Jacket Publishers Weekly Cambridge Book Review Oranges & Sardines Poetry Project Newsletter Black Ocean Blog American Poet Galatea Resurrects Interviews Jacket PFS Post Links Pennsound Author Page To The Sound (audio blog) Minus House Chapbooks Tiny Tour
