{"title":"Sound's Like Summer - Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e*exclusions apply\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e*discount applied at checkout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"bunnyman-post-war-kid-to-post-punk-guitarist-of-echo-and-the-bunnymen","title":"Bunnyman: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first authorised written history of Echo and the Bunnymen by and about a member of the band. Available for pre-order now. On sale in the USA winter 2021. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Will Sergeant is a true original.” — Robert Smith, The Cure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Will Sergeant is a sonic master of the universe.” – Courtney Love\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the true story of one small boy, me, Will Sergeant, navigating the 60’s and 70’s, a woolly-back (hick) spawned one drunken night on the outskirts of a Nazi pocked and battered Liverpool, growing up with the spectre of WW2 still creeping about most adults padlocked minds. I trudge on into a piss wet 1970s, just as the pustules of teenage years approach popping point. It is a heady time of power cuts, strikes, flying pickets, bread shortages, skinhead gangs, IRA bomb scares, nuclear war fears, rock gigs, glam clothes, drowned motorbikes, explosives, dead-end jobs and the usual school lessons of chicken strangulation. With the help of music, I manage to navigate myself through the sinking sand of prog rock and into safety of punk. My boots still muddy with a bad attitude, I head into the winter of discontent to become a post-punk trailblazer worshipped all over the world as a god. Well? An inventive and influential guitarist of some note at the very least.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40878911914139,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX180AXX","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_Bunnyman.jpg?v=1667953267"},{"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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Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history, It Came From Memphis dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis, Aretha, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit. The Memphis aesthetic is to invert expectations: artists encounter imperfection with a joyous enthusiasm, embracing mistakes and doing it all wrong by forging their own paths to get it exactly right, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. A storyteller’s storyteller, Robert Gordon puts you in the shotgun seat, riding with the old coots and the young rebels as they pass a bottle and a blunt. Memphis changed the world, this book might change you. The paragraph that begins updated and revised should be all bold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“If you haven’t read this book, do it now.” – Rolling Stone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Gordon creates a vivid portrait of the place and the music—what he calls its simplicity, its eccentricity, its soul—through a freewheeling, anecdotal narrative that mixes the fervor of a fan, the flair of a storyteller and the clear-eyed perspective of a critic.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Please note that this product can only be shipped within North America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg height=\"297\" width=\"299\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_12.47.18_PM_480x480.png?v=1621878262\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-24_at_12.47.18_PM_480x480.png?v=1621878262\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal, William Buckley, and the demise of civil discourse in America. He’s not the rockabilly singer, he’s not author of Deep Blues, and he’s not the university in Scotland. 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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). 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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. 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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. 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The best of her work is imbued with subtle interventions which ultimately provide the reader with sharply felt revelations.... The stories work from mutual touchstones: the illustration of sex as an act of power; a visceral relationship to the human body...; and the examination of the struggle to find oneself, particularly as a woman . . .--Richard Larson, Strange Horizons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcited is not the right word, maybe it's ecstatic, or maybe it's an otherworldy word that we yet to experience, but might discover while exploring all the worlds and beings in Kiini Ibura Salaam's collection of speculative fiction short stories, When the World Wounds. In this eagerly-awaited collection, Kiini Ibura Salaam continues her exploration of the dark, the sensual, and the mysterious with fiction that disturbs, delights, and dazzles. 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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. She is co-author of the Phyllis Wheatley Award winning young adult novel, The Diary of B.B. Bright, and the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook and memoir Soul Food Love. The Cave Canem fellow has been published in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Living, Gravy, and the New York Times. Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet (Third Man Books, 2019) is her debut poetry collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40879666888859,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX171AXX","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_LucyNegroRedux.jpg?v=1667953604"},{"product_id":"mary-wants-to-be-a-superwoman","title":"mary wants to be a superwoman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"People still sing goddamn it. Praise be to erica lewis.” — Sampson Strakweather, author of PAIN: The Board Game\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\"erica lewis' poems map the relationships among music, memory, place, and the passage of time . . . . By intertwining the public and the personal, Lewis's poems become a membrane through which pop culture permeates the most intimate experiences of selfhood\" — Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\"Every word is held accountable and must carry a sort of gravitas. 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 if music is the embedded memory of a culture, then her remarkable fiction collection is its excavated soul. Individually, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture, but their shared song is the story of the blues. Thomas’s writing haunts and mesmerizes you. Her imagination takes you down through it like the best traditional blues song, then opens you up again, delivering you into that mysterious, transcendental space that is the ninth bar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaunting and evocative, Nine Bar Blues carries the soul’s songbook, from the dark laughter of strange sisters forced to make a perilous journey into a land their mothers have never known, to the fortified funk of extraterrestrial mixtapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSheree Renée Thomas imagines stories that are sonic rituals, works that cultivate and affirm the magical and the mystical in everyday living. Nine Bar Blues explores the multitudinous forms of music and the people who make it and appreciate it—the body’s music, the spirit’s music, and what moves a soul forward in the crossroads journey of life. Her stories travel from haunted West African and Middle Eastern forests to the mysterious back roads in the Mississippi Delta, from the ancestral realms of the afterlife to the alien sounds beyond. And throughout the journey, Nine Bar Blues heralds the arrival of a unique writer whose voice carries the hope and the past-future-present of a people.\u003c\/span\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_4.07.40_PM_480x480.png?v=1621631087\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-21_at_4.07.40_PM_480x480.png?v=1621631087\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheree Renée Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and editor with fellowships and residencies from the Millay Colony of Arts, Bread Loaf Environmental, VCCA, Ledig House, Blue Mountain Center, Cave Canem Foundation, NYFA, Tennessee Arts Commission, and Smith College where she served as the Lucille Geier-Lakes Writer-in-Residence. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary publications, including Sycorax’s Daughters, Do Not Go Quietly, Memphis Noir, Stories for Chip: A Tribute To Samuel R. Delany, So Long Been Dreaming: Post-colonial Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy, Revise the Psalm: A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Revenge, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, Lightspeed, The Ringing Ear, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Apex Magazine, An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables, The Moment of Change: Feminist Speculative Poetry, Memories \u0026amp; Reflections On Ursula K. Le Guin, StorySouth, Hurricane Blues, African Voices, Drumvoices Revue, Fiyah, Fireside Fiction, Strange Horizons, Obsidian, Renaissance Noire, Harvard’s Transition, Callaloo, Essence, and The New York Times. Her work is also forthcoming in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. She edited the Dark Matter speculative fiction volumes that won two World Fantasy Awards and first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction. She was the inaugural recipient of the LA (Leslie) Banks Award for outstanding achievement in the speculative fiction field. Her hybrid, multigenre collection, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press) was longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct), was described as a “revelatory work like Jean Toomer’s Cane.” She serves as the Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature \u0026amp; Arts in the African Diaspora (Illinois State University, Normal). Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, 2020) is her first fiction collection. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40879839641755,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX169AXX","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_NineBarBlues.jpg?v=1667953822"},{"product_id":"pain-the-board-game","title":"PAIN: The Board Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Not only thrillingly accessible, not only deeply thought-provoking, but also, and without exaggeration, historically important.\"—The Huffington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePAIN: The Board Game is 160 pages of poetry, 15 full color illustrations by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jonmichaelfrank.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJon-Michael Frank\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the first book of poetry that is both page-turning-analog and online interactive. 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. 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This book has that quality. The text is the lyrics from the wonderful, now classic song “We’re Going To Be Friends” by Jack White. In place of sound and music we have Elinor Blake’s pictures. These images surprise and delight and have a genuine and rare timelessness, I can easily visualize this charming creation sitting snug between books by Robert McCloskey and Garth Williams on any bookshelf both past and present.” — Tony Fucile, Animator, Finding Nemo, The Lion King\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I am a big fan of classic children’s book illustrations and an even bigger fan of Elinor Blake. I’m also a huge fan of pure Rock and Roll so naturally I’m a dedicated Jack White fan. Jack has written a perfect story and Elinor’s art is enchanting. It harkens back to 1940s Golden Books. Read it while listening to either Jack or Elinor sing the story. 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In hues of red, black and white with nods to classic animation and mid-century picture books, Elinor Blake creates an enchanted vision for Jack White’s gentle story of new friendship.” —Nina Crews, The Neighborhood Mother Goose\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-20_at_4.10.12_PM_480x480.png?v=1621544870\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack White\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJack White is a twelve-time Grammy-winning musician, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work in the bands The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, and as a solo artist. In 2009 he also founded his own record label, Third Man Records.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-20_at_4.11.24_PM_480x480.png?v=1621544935\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElinor Blake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElinor Blake, a.k.a. singer\/songwriter April March, is a Disney trained animator first hired at age eighteen by Paul Reubens for Pee-wee’s Playhouse, in a studio so large there was rollerskating around the drawing boards after hours. She then went on to work with some of the best known artists and directors in movies and television, among them Ralph Bakshi, Quentin Tarantino, Nick Park, and John Kricfalusi. She’s animated everything from Coke to Crest Toothpaste and everyone from Ren \u0026amp; Stimpy to Bugs Bunny, not to mention Frank Zappa (whom she just mentioned). This is her first children’s book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4s2ap2-SEd0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40880705142939,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX162AXX","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/products\/1_TMB_WereGoingtobeFriends_ed0371d4-5fa1-43b9-97b6-b970af753b1c.jpg?v=1667954225"},{"product_id":"gallows-pole","title":"The Gallows Pole","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Atmospheric alt-crime at its best.\" – NME\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize, the world’s largest prize for historical fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThird Man Books debut fiction novel, The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers, is for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Ted Hughes, Daniel Woodrell, David Peace. Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by the charismatic “King” David Hartley, a man prone to violence and mystical visions, the Coiners rise to glory until the bloody murder of a government official brings them to the attention of the authorities. An English western, The Gallows Pole is a poetic and visceral telling of a secret history and a wild landscape. King David Hartley could be described, too, as Yorkshire’s Robin Hood. However, this could only be Robin Hood if he was really violent, lusty, and greedy. A story based on true history, The Gallows Pole also explores contemporary themes including wealth, abuse of power, class, corruptions, borders and boundaries and national identity. It is a novel set in the past that can tell us much about the present and future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis USA and Canada edition of the breakthrough independent United Kingdom novel includes an exclusive Foreword by author Benjamin Myers. The Gallows Pole was signed on in the UK by Bloomsbury (home of Harry Potter), along with Myers’ back-list and optioned for film by Element Pictures (The Favorite, Room, This Must Be The Place).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Not only one of my books of the year, but it also has my cover of the year: Sergeant Pepper meets The Omen by way of 1930s paperbacks. It’s the best thing Myers has done; fierce gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape out of which the story rises.\" – Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year, The Big Issue\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\"\u003e“This powerful novel is as darkly lovely as Emily Bronte’s work” – Joanne Harris\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 src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-05-20_at_4.59.28_PM_480x480.png?v=1621547797\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBenjamin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBenjamin Myers was born in Durham, UK, in 1976. He is in an award-winning author, poet and journalist, translated into several languages. His most recent novel The Offing was a bestseller in the UK, and serialized on BBC Radio, while The Gallows Pole won the Walter Scott Prize – the world’s largest prize for historical fiction - and has been identified as a contemporary cult classic. His novel Beastings (2014) won the Portico Prize For Literature and was recipient of the Northern Writers’ Award. Pig Iron (2012) was the winner of the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and runner-up in The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize. A controversial combination of biography and novel, Richard (2010) was a bestseller, chosen as a Sunday Times book of the year. Myers’ ‘folk crime’ novels Turning Blue (2016) and These Darkening Days (2017) were widely acclaimed by critics including Val McDermid. As a journalist he has written about music, the arts and nature for publications including New Statesman, The Guardian, The Spectator, NME, Mojo, Time Out, New Scientist, Caught By The River and many others. His short stories and poetry have appeared in dozens of print and small press anthologies, chapbooks and underground obscurities. 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Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue's confluence of stories range from the salt-edged to freshwater clear. The anthology's powerful water-buoyed voices represent international understandings of water's multiple mythos, its futures possible, and its pasts unforgotten. No matter where you enter these stories, you will not leave unchanged; and when you return, you may find the stories themselves have transformed as well. 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Shepherd and his brilliant cohorts served up the legendary output of not only kingpins like The Clean, The Chills and Tall Dwarfs, but also captured the best from favourites of mine like Able Tasmans, Bird Nest Roys, Look Blue Go Purple and The Verlaines. Goody provides the most comprehensive presentation yet of Flying Nun’s rise from Shepherd’s notepad to international underground rock sovereignty – and a vital part of one nation’s collective art history.\" — Bob Nastanovich, Pavement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attempts at world domination, Needles and Plastic tells the inside story of one of New Zealand – and the world’s – great independent music labels. 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The influence of the obscure label became apparent in the 1990s, when big-time indie acts like Pavement, Cat Power or Yo La Tengo started covering Flying Nun bands.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn entries on over 140 records from The Clean’s ‘Tally Ho!’ 7\" in 1981 to The Verlaines Bird-Dog LP in 1988, Matthew Goody tells the story through the records themselves. His book draws on years of in-depth research to reveal the stories of the bands, the recordings, the songs, and the audience, with a host of significant characters contributing along the way – Shepherd, Chris Knox, Doug Hood, Hamish Kilgour and many more. In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attempts at world domination, Needles and Plastic tells the inside story of one the world’s great independent music labels.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHARDCOVER SPECIAL EDITION AVAILABLE \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thirdmanstore.co.uk\/products\/needles-and-plastic-flying-nun-records-1981-1988-special-edition\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMatthew Goody\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatthew Goody\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian editor and publisher who has worked in the book industry for over a decade. 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The multiple Grammy-winning group from Detroit helped define a generation and continues to shape and influence both musicians and music lovers. The 300+ page hardbound book is the first time The White Stripes lyrics have been collected and also features never-before-seen and rare rough drafts, alternate lyrics, and photographs. Included are essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, Ben Blackwell, and Caroline Randall Williams. \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Third Man Records – Official UK\/EU Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43362280210587,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX154AXX","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/files\/1_TMB_TWSCompleteLyrics_Regular.jpg?v=1686001495"},{"product_id":"the-last-vanishing-man","title":"The Last Vanishing Man","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.conjunctions.com\/online\/article\/matthew-cheney-08-25-2015\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.conjunctions.com\/online\/article\/matthew-cheney-08-25-2015\"\u003ePreview \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Last Vanishing Man, a collection of short stories, by Matthew Cheney is Third Man Books first horror book!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fever-dream reportage wrapped up in packages both bloody and colorful.\"— Paul Di Fillipo, LOCUS Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on.\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence and masculinity are topics that weave through these stories, as characters of various genders and sexualities get scarred by the wounds of manhood. But though these stories bounce similar themes off each other, they are not narrow in focus or tone. Hard-edged realism lives alongside ghost stories and weird tales; the lyrical tragedy of “A Suicide Gun” sits beside the wild, filthy, absurdist romp that is “The Ballad of Jimmy and Myra”, a murder ballad that might be a lost Weird Al song for a John Waters movie. The collection winds down with an expatriot American living in the melting tundra of Siberia, seeking liberation from the forces that deranged his life, the same forces that shaped and warped the lives of all the other characters in the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Vanishing Man is organized in four sections. The first section tells tales of people seeking to make sense of history and their place in it, whether the history of a queer sanctuary in Canada or of the unfulfilled dreams of the Warhol star Candy Darling. The second section gives us characters who are each on a quest to understand someone who is gone, vanished into memory or worlds beyond, their stories closer to myth than history. In the third section, lonely men seek meaning in a world where they have lost their way. Their quests become philosophical, even spiritual, as they wander toward something greater than their own transient desires. The final section breaks the book open with extremes: extremes of feeling, extremes of strangeness, extremes of horror. The fiercely disturbing story “Patrimony” portrays a post-apocalypse where male power renders the procreation of humanity into torture. “On the Government of the Living” is also a post-apocalyptic story, also a story of children and humanity, but more haunting parable than horror, more Samuel Beckett than Clive Barker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Vanishing Man is a book for readers seeking more than familiar genre conventions, readers seeking stories that challenge, unsettle, surprise, and sing. These are stories aware of the sufferings of the world, stories of characters tormented by unfulfilled desires and unfathomable violence, but also stories of compassion, of community, of humor, and of infinite possibilities beyond the prison of the self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Weird, dark, and wonderful visions from a wholly unique voice.\" —Jeffrey Ford, World Fantasy and Nebula Award-winning author of A Natural History of Hell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brutal and Beautiful.\" —Franz Nicolay, musician The Hold Steady and author of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control and Someone Should Pay for Your Pain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/MatthewCheney_480x480.png?v=1678122743\" alt=\"\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/MatthewCheney_480x480.png?v=1678122743\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Cheney’s newest short story collection, The Last Vanishing Man (Third Man Books) is available in bookstores everywhere. His debut collection of fiction, Blood: Stories, won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016. His academic book Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form: Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits of Fiction was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community will be published by Punctum Books in the Fall of 2022. He is Assistant Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University. His work has been published by Conjunctions, Woolf Studies Annual, One Story, English Journal, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Best Gay Stories 2016, Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is the former series editor for the Best American Fantasy anthologies, and the co-editor, with Eric Schaller, of the occasional online magazine The Revelator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Records – Official UK\/EU Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43381228208283,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX152AXX","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/files\/1_TMB_LastVanishingMan.jpg?v=1686001569"},{"product_id":"stray-dogs","title":"Stray Dogs","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW. ON SALE AT BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE ON June 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets into a fight with a biker who ends up getting stabbed in the head. On the run from both Romeo and the Devil’s Children biker gang, Turner and his pals, Millboy and Frankie, find an abandoned summerhouse in which to hide out. But tensions within the group damage personal relationships as external threats converge to destroy the lives they had. 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Tracing losses both interpersonal and universal – from a mother’s failing heart to environmental and economic decline ravaging ancestral homelands – OUTSIDE THE JOY is a compendium of abundance in a world rife with want. With a voice as singular as it is illuminating, Awad explores the sharp contrasts of our shared existence: the human capacity to hurt and to hold one another, the love and grief that grow from our ephemeral connectedness. These poems unearth the sacred in the ordinary and invite you to do the same – “if only \/ you’ll let the world \/ soften you with its touching.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"538\" width=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/Ruth_Awad_Headshot_-_square.png?v=1720473523\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs \u0026amp; Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Widely anthologized, her poems most recently appear in You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and published in association with the Library of Congress. Her work appears in The Atlantic, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbus, Ohio. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Just a few stanzas into Outside the Joy, you find yourself leaning toward the page, breathing just a little slower than before as you inhale Ruth Awad’s music. This is a book you hold on to for dear life. Thankfully, each of these poems is here to hold you in return.” —Saeed Jones, author of Alive at the End of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Part ode, part elegy, part protection spell, Ruth Awad’s Outside the Joy holds at its radiant heart precarity itself. These poems inventory the losses, the mercies, and the small miracles in this life that is not ours for long. An unforgettable book by one of our best contemporary poets. What a gift to be haunted by these words.” —Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There is a beautiful use of sensual language in Outside the Joy, and there is wisdom. What a terrific, memorable voice. These poems are not just well made—they are one of a kind.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author Deaf Republic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Third Man Records – Official Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45231263711387,"sku":"THMBKXXXXX346AXX","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/files\/1_TMB_OutsideOfJoy.jpg?v=1746539071"},{"product_id":"hollywood-dream-the-thunderclap-newman-story","title":"Hollywood Dream: The Thunderclap Newman Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdmanbooks.com\/s\/Extract_from-HOLLYWOOD-DREAM_MarkWilkerson_ThunderclapNewman_WithJacket_LoRez.pdf\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdmanbooks.com\/s\/Extract_from-HOLLYWOOD-DREAM_MarkWilkerson_ThunderclapNewman_WithJacket_LoRez.pdf\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“We were the best worst band. 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They followed up with an LP described by Nik Cohn as “one of the finest, most truly bizarre albums of the era” before disintegrating just a few months after its release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is the story of one of the most unlikely combos in popular music history, and of the four disparate characters who formed its core: Pete Townshend, principal songwriter and guitarist for The Who; his best friend and driver, the singer\/songwriter\/drummer John ‘Speedy’ Keen; a fifteen-year-old wunderkind guitarist named Jimmy McCulloch; and finally, an enigmatic telephone engineer who also happened to be a brilliant improvisational jazz pianist: Andy ‘Thunderclap’ Newman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRife with both triumph and tragedy, the story intersects with seismic cultural events such as the Apollo 11 moon landing and the massive Woodstock Music and Arts festival, and with legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Thunders, Motorhead, Paul McCartney and The Who. Drawing from exhaustive research and more than fifty interviews with those who were there, Hollywood Dream: The Thunderclap Newman Story provides a detailed, exacting look at the fascinating story of a band who everyone has forgotten but everyone knows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMark Ian Wilkerson was born in Birmingham, England, in the same year that Thunderclap Newman entered the world. He has written acclaimed biographies of Pete Townshend (2008) and Tomas Young (2016), and co-authored the official Pearl Jam retrospective and New York Times bestseller Pearl Jam 20 (2011). 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In an alternating rhythm of logic and lyric, doubt and doubling down, Toarmino regifts plain and inherited language to arrive at a theory for familiarity and something like faith: how we know what we know and why we share what we know. With curiosity, generosity, oddball intellect, and charm, \u003ci\u003eHell Yeah\u003c\/i\u003e captures that gut impulse to feel yes, say so, and sing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/1349\/4174\/files\/RachelleToarminobyJoshua_Thermidor.jpg?v=1745857399\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. 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She lives in Buffalo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Records – Official Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46323257933979,"sku":"THMCD55XXXXXXXAX","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/6948\/8795\/files\/TMB_055_RachelleToarmino_HellYeah_Cover_Mockup_WEB.jpg?v=1752597906"},{"product_id":"whats-going-on-and-the-last-days-of-the-motown-sound","title":"What's Going On? and the Last Days of the Motown Sound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\"College campuses were in uproar, young men were being sent to Vietnam, race riots were erupting in inner cities, and Marvin Gaye brought out a song that reflected it all – What’s Going On. Ben Edmonds describes the making of a record in defiance of all the odds.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eArguably the greatest soul album ever made, \u003ci\u003eWhat's Going On\u003c\/i\u003e established Motown star Marvin Gaye as a unique and maverick musical talent. His determination and vision resulted in inspirational and pioneering works that, in the era of Vietnam and the civil rights protests, asked America to take a long hard look at itself. Ben Edmonds examines in detail the making of this legendary work — initially rejected by Motown's quality-control department — interviewing many of the artists and record company employees closest to the singer, to arrive at a deeper understanding of what the album means. It is, without question, one of the greatest stories ever told. With a career that exemplified the maturation of romantic Black pop into a sophisticated form spanning social and sexual polities, Marvin Gaye was one of the most consistent and enigmatic of the Motown hit makers. Gaye's determination and vision resulted not only in inspirational, pioneering grooves but in an album that challenged America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBen Edmonds, as an editor at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine (1971-1975), played a pivotal role in shaping the narrative of music culture. His insightful articles also graced the pages of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and he served as a US correspondent for MOJO magazine. 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