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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872866164 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100252030 02 0872866165 03 9780872866164 15 9780872866164 BC 1 A01 Baus, Eric Eric Baus <p> Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. He is the author of <em>The To Sound,</em> selected by Forrest Gander for the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004), <em>Tuned Droves</em> (Octopus Books, 2009), and <em>Scared Text</em>, selected by Cole Swensen for the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011). He is a graduate of the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as well as the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. For several years he has made technical, critical, and editorial contributions to digital audio archives of contemporary literature. <em>Notes on PennSound</em>, a series of commentaries investigating various aspects of the sonic and social environment of online poetry recordings recently appeared in <em>Jacket2</em>. He has taught creative writing and literature courses at Naropa University, University of Denver, University of Hartford, Regis University, and University of Massachusetts. An essay and exercise based on his experience working with elementary school students through the Writers in the Schools (WITS) program was published in the anthology <em>Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry</em> (McSweeney's, 2013). With Andrea Rexilius, he co-edits Marcel Chapbooks. He lives in Denver.</p> 01 eng 100 00 100 03 20 American;poetry;prose poetry;surrealism 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Surrealism 01 <p> In the tradition of French poets like Francis Ponge and René Char, <em>The Tranquilized Tongue</em> offers a series of prose meditations in the form of surrealist declaratives, each sentence unfolding like an alchemical riddle in which sounds, images, and figures appear, dissolve, and re-emerge to offer a glimpse of a complex unconscious roiling below the surface of everyday reality.</p> <p> "For over a decade now, Eric Baus has been one of the leading practitioners of a new kind of poem, one that draws as equally on the legacy of surrealism, the nouveau roman, and even the language poets, as it does on the Deep Listening practice of Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier's forays into resonant sound, the films of Charles and Ray Eames, and the voiceover of Sir David Attenborough narrating our insect and animal worlds. <em>The Tranquilized Tongue</em> speaks to us in a music capable of condensing geologic time into that of a microtonal interval: weird, warped, a little wobble on its newly hatched legs, this is a book where the word The will follow you like a gosling." —Noah Eli Gordon</p> 02 If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of The Tranquilized Tongue. 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100252030/images/87286100252030L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100252030/images/87286100252030S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100252030 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20140513 08 16 oz