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.
"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
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