In the 1980’s, Thomas Meyer commenced working on an opera about Alan Turing. While it was eventually abandoned in the early ’90s, Meyer completed the libretto, a work that Anne Midgette describes in her introduction of The Turing Opera as “[sitting] at the intersection of science and poetry. Parts of its text simulate computer generation: chains of words spun out in every possible permutation, their meanings and sounds overlapping the way lines of music might overlap. And yet what comes across is not mechanical, but lyrical.” For over 30 years, this stunning work remained shelved. Hiding Press has the honor of presenting, for the first time anywhere, Thomas Meyer’s The Turing Opera.

Thomas Meyer is the author of several books of poetry, whose recent titles include Kintsugi (Flood Editions), Essay Stanzas (The Song Cave), Porcelain Pillow (Lunar Chandelier Collective), and Fisher King (Verge Books). He has made notable translations of the tao te ching, I ching, Beowulf, Pindar, Sappho, and Mallarmé. His essays and reviews have appeared in Parnassus, the American Book Review, Credences, Sulfur, and Prose. He was the recipient of an NEA Creative Fellowship in Poetry, an Ingram-Merrill Award for Poetry and an NEA Opera & Music Theater (New American Works) Creative Fellowship for Librettists. Poems of his have been set to music by Craig Carnahan, James Sellars, and Conrad Cummings.

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