Background
Tost was born in Springfield, Missouri, and raised in Enumclaw, Washington.
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Invisible Bride: Poems
(Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defles conventional...)
Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defles conventional description. Like a fantastic film, a feverish delirium, or a dream state, these prose poems use an experimental lexicon of imagery that goes beyond anything typically poetic. Tost's point of departure is the loss of the Other that makes the I: Agnes, And in a sort of coming-of-age soliloquy song, he meditates on a range of topics: fatherhood, childhood, identity, poetry. Together his poems express the unburdening of consciousness, a consciousness that contains the likes of Blake, Italo Calvino, Allen Grossman, and Frank Stanford, among others (including Tost himself), Surreal and surprising, Invisible Bride showcases the prose artistry of a new American talent.
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Complex Sleep (Kuhl House Poets)
(Complex Sleep, Tony Tost's ambitious second book of poems...)
Complex Sleep, Tony Tost's ambitious second book of poems, leaps upward with an astounding multiplicity of voices, utterances, and bursts. Each leap marks a sure and precise entry into a world of images, ideas, and sensations that is brand new - the true accomplishment of any poetic work. audacious in scope, swiping at meaning via language as fragmented music. Tost takes on the problem of physical shape, reorchestrates phrases according to the alphabet, and writes himself into the hypnagogic state between waking and dreaming. Informed by their own procedural constraints, these poems invent forms that tap the unconscious poetic, the very complexity embodied in sleep. All the while, Tost reforms utterance beyond the mere epistemology of much contemporary poetry. discovering the what, Complex Sleep is about discovering how to say what needs to be said. Skip the opera, this book performs.
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(Complex Sleep) Author: Tony Tost published on (October, 2007)
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Invisible Bride (Walt Whitman Award) by Tony Tost (2004-04-01)
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Tony Tost
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Tost graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arkansas. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Duke University.
Career
He is a graduate of both Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington and College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in the literary journals Fence, Hambone, Talisman, Mandorla, Number: a journal of the arts, Denver Quarterly, Typo, American Literature, Jacket, Verse, Open Letter and elsewhere. Critic Joshua Scheiderman wrote that Tost"s book "ultimately belongs in the long, rich tradition of texts like Constance Rourke’s American Humor: A Study of the National Character (1931) and Greil Marcus’s The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (1997), ostensibly academic studies of American culture but also works of mythopoesis in their own right."
Tost writes for the A&East television series Longmire.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Complex Sleep (Kuhl House Poets)
(Complex Sleep, Tony Tost's ambitious second book of poems...)
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Invisible Bride: Poems
(Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defles conventional...)
- (Complex Sleep) Author: Tony Tost published on (October, 2007)
- Invisible Bride (Walt Whitman Award) by Tony Tost (2004-04-01)
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Complex Sleep (Kuhl House Poets)
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United States