The To Sound [Paperback]

Eric Baus (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Juliana Spahr writes: "Birds with extremely long necks. Cassiopeia. A sister. A Marco Polo. A somnambulist. A documentary on the voyages of Columbus. A cartographer. Star charts. Young intellectuals in black robes. Jean-Michel Basquiat. More birds and still more birds. A mathematician. All these things appear in The To Sound’s beautifully warped cosmology. This is a stunning book that builds its own world, a world of ambiguous relations and loaded words; a lyrical world that explores the unstated connections between things. . . ."

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A sustained, swerving, humming pleasure. -- Forrest Gander

Baus tugs at the old heart strings like a Romantic, but with his own brand of emotion.... Sophisticated and thrilling. -- Olivia Cronk

About the Author

ERIC BAUS was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His publications include the chapbooks the space between magnets (Diaeresis, 2001) and a swarm in the aperture (Margin to Margin, 2002). He has published poems in Verse, Hambone, First Intensity, 3rd bed, Colorado Review, and other journals. His book, The To Sound, was selected by Forrest Gander for the 2002 Verse Prize and was awarded a grant from the Greenwall Fund of the Academy of American Poets. He currently lives in western Massachusetts where he is an editor of Baffling Combustions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Verse Press (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972348743
• ISBN-13: 978-0972348744
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Freak the Bird, May 26, 2004

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This review is from: The To Sound (Paperback)

Birds and their sounds separate into a discreet number of different pies while "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With" burns up in a fire. Incendiary Tenor, not a Sucka MC, tho occassionally the letters do not form the correct code producing asinine burritos Eric cannot eat. I eat them. Merganzers pierce the pies and blueberry potty tails emerge. Dominant neck biters swerve to assuage the pillows. I eye captain. Bob Creeley's good vs. bad eyes battling for High Five of Teenager seven inch collector's items. M. Baus is a German spy but only when he carries his passport. Carry his sounds as your passbook, Gary, and the swan will not show on your screen. Pedialyte. Encode and uncode your unctious choo choo.