Scared Text (Colorado Prize for Poetry) - Softcover

Baus, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885635184 ISBN 13: 9781885635181

Publisher: Center for Literary Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Winner of the 2011 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

About this title

About the Author

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1975. His books include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books), The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books, Winner of the 2002 Verse Press, selected by Forrest Gander), and several chapbooks. He currently lives in Denver.

Review

"Marvelously sustained and densely rhythmic, this tightly constructed whole is built of parts that, at each level, all the way down to the phrase, constitute poems in themselves. Baus manages to keep a cast of words in constant replay until many of them take on the presence of character, and some emerge as characters themselves­-Minus and Iris, for instance-­keeping the whole on the verge of a narrative project that remains always just barely out of reach, just barely in another world in which language and animal endlessly interleave. Baus has opened a new literary field: the linguistic bestiary, a new zoo where words pace like fauves behind ever-thinning bars."
―Cole Swensen, contest judge and author of Greensward, Ours, and The Glass Age

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for Literary Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1885635184
• ISBN 13: 9781885635181
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 76