A Daily Glance
Eric Baus’
The To Sound bends poetic form to push us into new insights. Unlike much post-language poetry that relies on rupturing techniques (parataxis, collage, etc. . .) to do this, Baus does this through creating a world for us to enter, even if the world is not fully drawn. We have what seem like journals or epistles written to someone, and we have repeating images, like the one of birds with their parts—wings, eyes, and such. In other words, we’re in an alternate system trying to figure out how the words/images fit together though sure that they do, and the beautiful sounds of the pieces keep pushing us along. Logic, however, might not be the appropriate tool for understanding the place that is the book, though the idea of logic is evoked in the book. Really, the book, forming a place on its own, seems to work well through displacing us from our ordinary spaces.
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