{"title":"Poetry Month 2026","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ascend-ascend","title":"Ascend Ascend","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSigned limited hardcover edition also available\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thirdmanstore.com\/miscellaneous\/third-man-books\/ascend-ascend-special-edition\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/thirdmanstore.com\/miscellaneous\/third-man-books\/ascend-ascend-special-edition\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Janaka Stucky is extraordinary, and his work riveting.” —Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEqual parts Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain,” Ascend Ascend makes us both passenger and witness as we participate in the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. The long poem was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church. If you experienced Stucky's first book, The Truth is We are Perfect, for Third Man Books, then Ascend Ascend is a must read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRooted in the Jewish mystical tradition of Hekhalot literature, which chronicles an ascent up the Kabbalistic Tree of Life to witness the Merkabah, or “chariot of God,” this book-length poem drafts a surreal, mythological landscape in which maximalist language shreds the natural world. Light becomes rainbowed sex. Intestines tangle into an aria. The sky is gallowed. At the center of this apocalyptic devastation stands the speaker of these poems, asserting: I explode. I shall love. I ascend. Stucky’s verse reminds us that even as we sink deeper and deeper into unknown darkness, we become our own flashlight beaming outward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A dreamlike power” — Publishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Ascend Ascend is a passionate trance poem of praise, incantation and divination. It scries into the future with aspiration …” — Anne Waldman, author of Trickster Feminism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A genuine return to a poetry of extasis, both in experience \u0026amp; in language. Breathtaking and wonderful, I’m truly delighted to add Ascend Ascend to my repertory of contemporary works.” — Jerome Rothenberg, editor of Technicians of the Sacred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cimg height=\"302\" width=\"305\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_12.38.57_PM_480x480.png?v=1621877775\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_12.38.57_PM_480x480.png?v=1621877775\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJanaka Stucky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJanaka Stucky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a two-time National Haiku Champion, and the author of four poetry collections including Ascend Ascend (Third Man Books, 2019). Janaka incorporates esoteric influences \u0026amp; occult rituals into his work to develop a trance poetics, which he has taught or performed in over 60 cities around the world. He has also collaborated with a variety of musicians, including cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana), Jim Jarmusch's group SQÜRL, and the iconic doom metal band Sleep. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications such as The Huffington Post and Poetry Foundation—and has been profiled in The Believer, Vice, and BOMB Magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40878785495195,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX183AXX","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_AscendAscend.jpg?v=1667953073"},{"product_id":"ascend-ascend-special-edition","title":"Ascend Ascend: Special Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe signed, hardcover, special edition of ASCEND ASCEND by Janaka Stucky from Third Man Books will have a black-on-black foil debossed cover, with the illustration by Aaron Horkey printed across its inside front cover and end paper. The book will also be wrapped in a black kona cotton band, silkscreened with the book’s seven sigils, which can be removed and applied as a back patch. The patch will be secured in place with an enamel pin, which can then be worn on your favourite bag or jacket for journeying. These special editions will only be available direct from Third Man or at Stucky's live performances. Quantity is limited!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eABOUT ASCEND ASCEND\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEqual parts Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain,” Ascend Ascend documents the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. The long poem was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church. If you experienced Stucky's first book, The Truth is We are Perfect, for Third Man Books, then Ascend Ascend is a must read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePRAISE FOR ASCEND ASCEND:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Janaka Stucky is extraordinary, and his work riveting.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A dreamlike power”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1d2129;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40878785855643,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX182AXX","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/asced-ascend-hard-cover-mock-web_1.jpg?v=1629310978"},{"product_id":"car-ma-standard-edition","title":"Car Ma (Standard Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“CAR MA is a love letter to the motorcar, a book about rock \u0026amp; roll and love.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e— Rolling Stone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCAR MA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis artist and musician Alison Mosshart’s first printed collection of paintings, photographs, short stories, and poetry. It is a book about cars, rock n’ roll, and love. It’s a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It’s a book about fender bender portraiture, story tellin’ tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood. Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America’s highways- the last great roller coasters. Shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes. Mosshart ruminates that automobiles- with their doors and mirrors and windows, engines and wheels and radios- portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit, our inward reflections and outward visions, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn’t. Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out … over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good and with the volume up that fucking loud.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Part road diary, part automobile love song, part personal history, CAR MA dives deep into the soul of the American drive.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e- Interview Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-20_at_1.17.14_PM_480x480.png?v=1621534486\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlison Mosshart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlison Mosshart is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated rock n’ roll band, The Dead Weather. Mosshart is also a visual artist, working in paints, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions: “Fire Power” at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC, 2015, “Fire Power Los Angeles” at Maxfield in Los Angeles, 2017, “Tonight Only” in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 2016, “Side Effects” at Panteon in Mexico City, 2018, and “Los Trachas” at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles, 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40878915977371,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX179AXX","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_CarMa_09c8426f-6274-4e8f-8a85-8521e2d58377.jpg?v=1667953316"},{"product_id":"destruction-of-man","title":"Destruction of Man","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINCLUDES FLEXI DISC OF SMITH READING WITH ACCORDION (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Ondine Wittman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) \u0026amp; DRUM (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCraig Pickering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) ACCOMPANIMENT. PLUS PHOTOS TAKEN BY THE POET OF THE FARM HE WORKS AT THAT INSPIRED THE BOOK.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Abraham Smith’s Destruction of Man is a compass setting toward musics caught between the hungry teeth of vole and buried bone of river.”—Tyehimba Jess, Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWillie Nelson sang for Farm Aid and it didn’t work: this won’t either: yet Destruction of Man is a book: a book by a poet\/farmer about farming and a family man and a familiar county–stung body; stung land–as told by a tweaked-to-warble farm machine that ate a human arm, and the chicken ate what’s left, and the hawk ate what’s left, and then the hawk died of old age. This is a book-length poem about small-scale family farming in the midst of the “get-big-or-get-out” mantra and foghorn. The conclusions are clarion clear: rurality has its hectic musics and all we have is love. In the words of Gertrude Stein: “After all anybody is as their land and air is.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I’ve been unable to decide if the best way to describe this book is as punk gone agrarian or if the agrarians went punk.”— Juliana Spahr, Winner of the 2009 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Part song, part guttural wail into the American rural landscape, Destruction of Man is a breathtaking lyric that’s as complex and heartbreaking as the country itself.”— Ada Limón, finalist 2015 National Book Award-Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Abraham Smith uses his words like a rhythmic sledgehammer upside the head.”— Patterson Hood, co-founder and frontman of the Drive-By Truckers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg data-mce-fragment=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_1.49.51_PM_480x480.png?v=1621882018\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"305\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_1.49.51_PM_480x480.png?v=1621882018\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. DESTRUCTION OF MAN is his book-length poem about farming (Third Man Books, 2018). Smith is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3kLscf9fbM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40879069003931,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX178AXX","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_DestructionofMan.jpg?v=1667953420"},{"product_id":"hidden-water-from-the-frank-stanford-archives","title":"Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Hidden Water offers a broad and beautiful collection of photographs, drawings, letters and drafts of poems with notes and edits scribbled in the poet’s own hand. It even features a partial inventory of Stanford’s record collection (John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Leadbelly) and a picture of the business card he used for his day job . . .And in the end, Stanford’s voice is as clear, plain and death-obsessed as ever: “I wandered I sang \/ I made promises to death and I kept them \/ so having done \/ with my work in this world \/ I dove into that pool. —The Houston Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdited by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pw.org\/content\/agents_editors_michael_wiegers_of_copper_canyon_press?cmnt_all=1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichael Wiegers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Chet Weise, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/thirdmanstore.com\/hidden-water-from-the-frank-stanford-archives\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of unpublished poems, drafts, never before seen photos, NEVER BEFORE HEARD AUDIO, and correspondences between Stanford, Allen Ginsberg, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Alan Dugan, and more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCopper Canyon Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Third Man Books have collaborated to make Hidden Water a must have complement to Copper Canyon’s definitive Stanford collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/?s=hidden+water\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat About This\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso check out the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/thirdmanstore.com\/hidden-water-special-edition\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecial Edition Hidden Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The Mississippi-born, Memphis-bred poet once shot off a double-barreled shotgun in the middle of a party he’d thrown for Allen Ginsberg because he considered some of the guests to be ‘lightweights,’ his longtime friend Bill Willett recently recalled . . . ‘All the lightweights left.’ What About This and Hidden Water, considered together with The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, give us Stanford’s body of work in one place, more or less, allowing us to explore his cosmos on our own. “ —The Oxford American\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“… the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose poetry has been unavailable since his suicide at the age of 29 in 1978… Stanford was a hell of a metaphor-maker and simile-slinger, and could cast a spell of extreme intensity with a flick of his wrist.”—NPR.org\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“His love poems can sound like the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window, to borrow Dwight Yoakam’s line about Roy Orbison’s voice . . . . Mr. Stanford could lose his heart without blowing his cool.”—New York Times, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It’s hard to imagine a more fitting subject for a Third Man Books project than the poet Frank Stanford. He’s not quite poetry’s Robert Johnson, but the Mississippi-born Arkansas native’s work reaches beyond poetry’s converted, just as Johnson was a gateway bluesman. Stanford also comes complete with a legend of writing, romance and recklessness.”—Spilt Milk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“. . . It is astounding to me that I was not even aware of this accomplished and moving poet. There is a great deal of pain on the poems, but it is a pain that makes sense, a tragic pain whose meaning rises from the way the poems are so firmly molded and formed from within.\"—James Wright.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg height=\"302\" width=\"304\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_1.30.02_PM_480x480.png?v=1621880822\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_1.30.02_PM_480x480.png?v=1621880822\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Stanford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1948, Frank Stanford was a prolific poet known for his originality and ingenuity. He has been dubbed “a swamprat Rimbaud” by Lorenzo Thomas and “one of the great voices of death” by Franz Wright. He grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, and then Arkansas, where he lived for most of his life and wrote many of his most powerful poems. Stanford died in 1978. 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He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker.—Bill Knott, author of Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999 and Stigmata Errata Etcetera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Truth Is We Are Perfect contains 54 lyrics exploring the loss of oneself through the loss of an other, and how we seek to recreate ourselves in that absence. Stucky journeys into nothingness and, consequently, into awareness. His meditative sensibilities and minimalist style create ritualized poems acting as spells—transcribed to be read aloud and performed in the service of realizing that which we seek to become. Order your copy now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe yearning in these poems is awash in dense, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mishandling of promises and breakable bonds.—apt Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg height=\"270\" width=\"272\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_12.38.57_PM_480x480.png?v=1621877775\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_12.38.57_PM_480x480.png?v=1621877775\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanaka Stucky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanaka Stucky\u003cspan\u003e is a two-time National Haiku Champion, and the author of four poetry collections including Ascend Ascend (Third Man Books, 2019). Janaka incorporates esoteric influences \u0026amp; occult rituals into his work to develop a trance poetics, which he has taught or performed in over 60 cities around the world. He has also collaborated with a variety of musicians, including cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana), Jim Jarmusch's group SQÜRL, and the iconic doom metal band Sleep. 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It's a coming-of-age book as well as a book about motherhood; a bridge of recovery and reckoning connecting the themes. . . .The book is a mix-tape I made for my 14 year-old self, proof that she would grow up to be someone who doesn't apologize for who she is, especially her love of pop music.\"—Kendra DeColo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sex-positive feminist verse... DeColo manages to coax beauty and meaning from the absurd aching morass of human existence. It’s not every writer who can emerge from these corners with anything approaching grace, much less deft and bracing poems such as these.\"—The Nashville Scene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[DeColo's] work is ferocious and tender, demolishing patriarchal language and using the fragments to build riotous new worlds.\"—Bitch Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essay at VIDA:Women in Literary Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“...my book is neither pro- nor anti- pornography. Rather, it uses pornography as a starting point to talk about sexuality, agency, and identity; the poems about pornography set adjacent to poems about motherhood, coming of age, and politics.” —Kendra DeColo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in Kendra DeColo’s extraordinary second collection, My Dinner With Ron Jeremy, live in the sinuous space between want and propriety, fantasy and the “Must Be 18” button on the poetry portal. Here, desire dictates every fetish and gesture, the uncomfortable performances we give to convince ourselves in bedrooms, drug stores, on webcam, or on the subway, ukulele in hand. There’s love here, too, and John Coltrane, and abandonment in all its necessary circumstances, but sex is both brilliant talisman and vacant harbinger through it all. This often humorous, always provocative book puts a neon backlight on the filaments between what we have, what we have to do, and what we wish we could do, whether we can rewind and watch it again or not. \"—Adrian Matejka, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marvelous poetry … poems that would make great feature films, but I wouldn’t say it was Shakespeare; it’s not iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter, look that up.’” —Ron Jeremy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by some as “erotica for feminists,” and “enemy to family values” DeColo’s poems in \u003ci\u003eMy Dinner With Ron Jeremy\u003c\/i\u003e convulse with desire and a longing for connection. Her work speaks to the particular loneliness of watching Fox news after you’ve masturbated too many times, depleted and filled with fascination and terror. Balancing tenderness with ferocity, cynicism with wonder, DeColo’s poems disrupt and reclaim misogynistic language, creating a lyricism that dazzles and swoons, hoping to leave a stain deep enough to last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I wrote this book during my pregnancy, while watching the Republican nomination unfold. I wrote it for my 14 year-old self, smoking parliaments and reading Anais Nin on the floor at a Violent Femmes show. I wrote it for the 27 year old me who got sober. Most of all I wrote it to combat the reductionist and nihilist vision of certain politicians that seeks to numb and disempower us through the corruption of language. I hope that my poems go out into the world swinging both fists, ready to take on this demagoguery and twist it into something profane and beautiful.” —Kendra DeColo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. . . Love, we are ancientas the first people who learned to screw standing up\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eagainst a pine tree. Only your murmurs can staunchthe fissures inside me. Touch me like an assassin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003estrokes the steps of a church. Say my nameuntil I glow, engorged and radiant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eas a tick boasting her blood-swollenhunger without shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— excerpted from \"Dirty Talk\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAUTHOR BIO:Kendra DeColo’s first collection \u003ci\u003eThieves\u003c\/i\u003e in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014) was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and named “Favorite Nashville Poetry Book of 2014” by the Nashville Scene. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Millay Colony, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. She is book editor at Muzzle Magazine and guest teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. 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Especially black female voices.” - The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable Now at Third Man Storefronts and Online Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet by Caroline Randall Williams The book of poems now a major ballet!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart Savvy Lit Crit, part Blues chart, part hip revenge-femme-lyric, part imagined Interracial Romance Saga disguised as poems, In Lucy Negro, Redux:The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet, poet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinerandallwilliams.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaroline Randall Williams\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e plays the literary Race Card and cuts the whole deck, moving backwards in time in and forward in mind, archeologically offering a precise and seductive command performance of the hidden temperament of a specific and beautiful “Dark Lady”–both used and loved. Williams unearths Lucy by working her own mojo of intelligent vengeance and a dual aesthetic of inquiry and minimal, tour de force exegesis. Travel with Williams through the sublime racial moments of famous sonnets to a cultural critique of the work of Mr. Whiteness Him Bad Bard Self, William Shakespeare. Lucy as radical muse. Lucy as newly-freed verse news. Move over Othello, no more easy getting’ ovah, Lucy Negro aka Black Luce has, double-brilliantly and double inventively, fully arrived on fire! To add more heat, Williams’ book has been adapted to the ballet stage by Nashville Ballet’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvilleballet.com\/administration\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Vasterling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with music composed by Rhiannon Giddens. 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As the first poem, “BlackLucyNegro I,” explains, “she’s become an Other \/ way to talk about skin.” Williams pulls Lucy’s story into this world, examining both historical and contemporary problems of racism. This is a vital book, at once capable of searing insight and complex emotion. The poems speak to our time while giving voice to a ghost.” - Erica Wright, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/chapter16.org\/\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter16.org\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Caroline Randall Williams’s Lucy Negro, Redux is as finely polished as it provocatively dirty. Thank God! In a literary landscape where we usually get one or the other from literary art, this is a massive achievement. Williams gives us adorned black women tricksters, bluesy interracial situations and relationships without an iota of sentimentality or aw shucksism. More than any book I’ve read in the last decade, Williams forces us to reckon with our own investments in vengeance, folly and tenderness. This is stunning work.” - Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and Heavy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In Lucy Negro, Redux, Caroline Randall Williams has unearthed a new folk hero, a harbinger of the suppressed Black feminine. The voice in these exceptional poems is an active subversion to deep-rooted, but still relevant, western misogyny. Lucy Negro is no one’s muse, side-piece, or hush thing; she is an ironic blues in a familiar Shakespearean tapestry. The rhythmic vernacular and authentic lexicon urges us to read these poems out loud: I break it if I bought it,\/ I own it if I caught it,\/ I spend it if I got it.\/ Is this a 16thcentury European or the reincarnation of Bessie Smith? She is both. Randall Williams reminds us that the past is created from the now moment. As much as Lucy is historical artifact, she is a voice we need right now. This is more than historical poetry that relays facts. This is an unapologetic Black sonnet\/song. The author has successfully avoided that debut we tend to disown later in our writing careers; rather, Randall Williams has produced a manuscript that should be heard, sung, examined, then reexamined until Lucy comes crawling out our collective eyes, ears, throats and reticence.” - Derrick Harriell, author of Cotton, Ropes, and Strippers in Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Caroline Randall Williams’ debut collection of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux, is a fearless, mesmerizing accomplishment. Brilliant, sensual, and always powerful, Lucy Negro, Redux dares us (and all Others) to gaze directly at the complex silhouette of beauty shackled inside of Shakespeare’s famous ‘Dark Lady Sonnets’, and the playwright’s own shrouded avowal “…I will declare that Beauty herself is black.” Explicit in imagination and invention, Williams’ achievement in these pages examines the (mis)coded vernacular of desire and its relationship to blackness, in plain sight. Black Luce, no longer stranded and silenced in a colorless narrative, blazes and burns with agency in Williams’ symphonic odium of desire, race, and history. Williams writes, “Lucy, Lucy, even you’s God’s flesh.\"\/This world ain’t wanna see that yet.” As Williams’ (and Lucy’s) readers, we are asked to witness the piecing vision of this collection, which is astute in its nuanced gaze at the psyche of poetry as flesh. Dazzling in ambition, Lucy Negro, Redux draws back the bright skin of language to reveal a raw and original (Blk!) nerve.” - Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Mule and Pear (winner of the 2012 Black Caucus American Library Association’s Inaugural Poetry Award), and Lighting the Shadow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-21_at_4.43.48_PM_480x480.png?v=1621633261\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-21_at_4.43.48_PM_480x480.png?v=1621633261\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Randall Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaroline Randall Williams is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and educator in Nashville, Tennessee. 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For all the white space and sparse lines, what remains in the gaps after all the excess has been chipped away is striking. lewis manages to strip language down not to its bare bones, but the particulate marrow contained therein” — The Rumpus\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e* erica lewis being of both Native-American, white, and black descent gives her a unique, and diverse perspective on American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e* Every poem is inspired by a line from a Stevie Wonder song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e* The poems focus on lewis' mother’s side of the family, specifically the women. 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And, to accompany the book, finally, what everyone has waited for, a kick-ass video game based on a poetry book rather than FIFA, alien invasion, or Seal Team 6. Now all you gamers out there can experience what pixilated, dark haired poet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SampsonStarkwea\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSampson Starkweather\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e experiences: PAIN. No more can society argue that video game culture has usurped activities such as reading. Play the game. Taste the PAIN. Then, inflict more PAIN on your-self-abusing-selves, sitting in your dark rooms, cathode blue computer colored faces, still arguing Atari vs Intellivision, or the processing power of this-or-that latest console, and order PAIN: The Board Game by Sampson Starkweather, the fourth title from Third Man Books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am of my times and you screengrab out of ancient nowhere, the title of one of the poems in Starkweather’s second collection, PAIN: The Board Game, perfectly captures both his utter contemporariness and his empathetic treatment of our most primal conditions: “dis- \/ appointment \/ \u0026amp; misery \/ \u0026amp; helplessness \/ \u0026amp; suffering \/ \u0026amp; pain \/ \u0026amp; fear.” As he deploys the #trending and vintage lexicons of technology and pop culture with the depth and ease of a true lyricist, Starkweather pushes his poems into the territory of universal affect and risky humanity, to the root of our desire to connect. This is the contemporary poem that, just after it has “Shazamed \/ your orgasm” resurrects “the rough magic \/ of bodies \/ illuminating \/ the lack \/ of any \/ limitation \/ when one.” Starkweather’s unyielding, funny, luminous poetry is a brand new classic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhen I die will someone please keep me alive in Second Life my password to all things is pipedream! don’t forget the exclamation point and feel free to bring flowers fuck the sniper in the mall I leave a hole in everything\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Starkweather’s poetry is so real, so stunning, so emotionally accurate and strange…I find with each poem I’m laughing out loud. But also putting my hand over my heart, in a futile effort to keep the damn thing still.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/poetrycomics.org\/\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBianca Stone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Starkweather is creating a living poetry.” —C.D. Wright, author of One With Others, winner 2011 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg height=\"317\" width=\"318\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-21_at_3.47.31_PM_480x480.png?v=1621629918\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-21_at_3.47.31_PM_480x480.png?v=1621629918\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSampson Starkweather\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSampson Starkweather is a new American meta-realist poet born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He is the author of PAIN: The Board Game (Third Man Books, 2015) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsllc.com\/catalog\/the-first-4-books-of-sampson-starkweather\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather (Birds, LLC, 2013)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and a founding editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsllc.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBirds, LLC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an independent poetry press. He is the author of nine chapbooks, including Flowers of Rad by Factory Hollow Press, the collaborative audio poetry album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/blackcake.org\/album\/flux-capacitor\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFlux Capacitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e from Black Cake Records, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/untilthejoyofdeathhits.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUntil the Joy of Death Hits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a multi-media website of pop\/love GIF poems from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpork Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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It's a double chapbook with two front covers! \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdrian Matejka's (Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Big Smoke) new book Standing On the Verge \u0026amp; Maggot Brain is a chorus of poems and visual art that is psychedelic and bright, full of quarter notes disguised as words. The poems bend like a solo bends the big ideas of Funkadelic’s glitter and unrepentant funk. Sculptor and artist Kevin Neireiter translates music into stained glass graffiti in honour of Standing On the Verge. Nicholas Galanin’s (also front man of the Sub Pop band Ya Tseen) art creates musical compositions from monochromatics in response to Maggot Brain. The book is synesthesia for the ear and alchemy for the eyes and heart. Standing On the Verge \u0026amp; Maggot Brain is both a tribute to the iconic band Funkadelic and deep introspection of the contrasts in poet Matejka's celebrant hips and maggot brain. Just as the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is a celebration of energy and action, Maggot Brain is a place of deep sorrow. Matejka explores both the light and dark within the original visual art by Kevin Neireiter and Nicholas Galanin, reflecting the poet's radiances and shadows. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdrian Matejka\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five books of poetry including the forthcoming collection Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021) and The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013) which was a winner of the Anisfield Wolf Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. 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In 2021 he created a replica of the Hollywood sign for the Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs CA, which reads INDIAN LAND, directly advocating for and supporting the Land Back and Real Rent initiatives. Galanin holds a BFA from London Guildhall University in Jewellery Design and an MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts from Massey University in New Zealand, prior to which he apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers in his community; he is represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York, his music ( as Ya Tseen) is released by Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Galanin lives and works with his family on Tlingit Aani, Sitka, Alaska.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKevin Neireiter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003euses a wide variety of mediums in his art. These include paint, pastel, clay, wood, or any other objects found around his home. Many of his paintings are an attempt to describe what he hears in music. Kevin was thankful to have been asked to create the cover for Adrian's debut book, The Devil's Garden. When he's not making art, he is usually making music or maintaining a Funk shrine. (The Funk shrine is a sculptural homage to Pedro Bell's album cover for Funkadelic's Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On). 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Toarmino’s got it.\" — Nick Sturm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"These poems sing into the wild. \" — Hoa Nguyen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I want everyone who loves poetry to read this book.\" — CAConrad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHell Yeah\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachelle Toarmino’s highly anticipated second collection of poems, is an intimate, ecstatic examination of the wonders of common speech. As automatic and wholehearted as a \u003ci\u003ehell yeah\u003c\/i\u003e between friends, the poems interject into various sites of the interpersonal—from a work email and doctor’s office to a long-distance call and \u003ci\u003eYahoo! Answers\u003c\/i\u003e rabbit hole—to measure the strange, mundane, and ancient ways we relate and respond to one another. 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Cynicism and desire, rage and tenderness. All of these things seamlessly stitch together and come alive on the page.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Devil In America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Third Man Records – Official Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46681058443419,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX344AXX","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/files\/TMB_058_JackWhite_JWCompleteLyrics_Cover_Mockup_WEB.jpg?v=1750789368"},{"product_id":"twin-lead-lines","title":"Twin Lead Lines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These meticulously lyrical poems serve not only as auto-ethnographic lenses through which we can see both Little Jimmy Dickens being examined, but also the person doing the looking and the listening... \" \u003cem\u003e – Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a book that demands to be read and reread.”\u003cem\u003e – Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwin Lead Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner, is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of listening deeply to others and oneself. Turner's distant cousin and Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens plays a role in the poems as part-muse, part-foil, and full lode star -- not flawless, but bright -- for the poems to orient around as Turner maps her own voice and calling to artmaking. Dickens is Turner's partner in one of many of the duets played throughout Twin Lead Lines; along with a book-length series of anagram couplets, the twin-lead wire used to transmit radio signals, and the twin lead style of guitar playing made popular by Dickens’ band. Turner deftly moves between traditional and invented forms in these poems, which – like a country song – are by turns funny and searching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLou Turner\u003cspan\u003e is a writer and musician (Styrofoam Winos, Ryan Davis \u0026amp; the Roadhouse Band) based in Nashville, TN. She holds an MFA in poetry from Randolph College and is the author of the chapbook \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eShape Note Singing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (VA Press, 2021) as well as the editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuarter Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a literary magazine with a musical ear. Turner was a 2023 recipient of a solo artist residency from The Cabins, as well as a recipient of a Nashville Metro Arts Thrive Grant. 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