Formats
TMR269 - BOOK W/2LP
Details
**INSTOCK NOW**Third Man Records and Third Man Books are very proud to present Language Lessons: Volume I. Language Lessons is a 321 page hardbound book, co-edited by Chet Weise and Third Man's own Ben Swank, full of contemporary poetry and prose including over 20 award winning and / or nominated contemporary poets and authors such as Dale Ray Phillips, a Pulitzer Prize nominee in fiction, C.D. Wright, a National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle winner in poetry, and Adrian Matejka, a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. Language Lessons is two vinyl LPs of jazz, psychdelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop from artists such as William Tyler, Destruction Unit, Ken Vandermark, Sampson Starkweather and more. Language Lessons is 5 pieces of frameable broadsides of poems by C.D. Wright, Frank Stanford, Brian Barker, Jake Adam York and Chet Weise with original art from former Big Boys guitartist Tim Kerr, one-time Hate illustrator Jim Blanchard, intertwangle-ist folk artist Butch Anthony and more. That's a lot of bang for your buck... and it all comes housed in a hard-case clothbound sleeve. Details * The Language Lessons: Volume I box set includes a hardbound book of contemporary poetry and prose, two standard-weight vinyl LPs of jazz, psychedelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop, and 5 pieces of hangable art all housed in a hard-case clothbound sleeve. * In 321 pages, the book includes over 20 award winning and / or nominated contemporary poets and authors such as Dale Ray Phillips, a Pulitzer Prize nominee in fiction, C.D. Wright, a National Book Award finalist in poetry, and Adrian Matejka, a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. And, almost as interestingly, many in the book will be published for the first time in their lives. * To hang on the wall, five frameable broadsides of poems by C.D. Wright, Frank Stanford, Brian Barker, Jake Adam York and Chet Weise, with original art by former Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr, one-time Hate illustrator Jim Blanchard, intertwangle-ist folk artist Butch Anthony, and more. * Features unpublished work by Frank Stanford, Jake Adam York, C.D. Wright, Steve Stern, Sampson Starkweather, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, bemsilr brigham, TJ Jarrett, Janaka Stucky, Sommer Browning, Gaylord Brewer, Dan Boehl, Ben Mirov, Daniel Lucca Pujol, William Miller, and Chet Weise. * Features unheard music by William Tyler, Destruction Unit, Paul ''Wine'' Jones, and Ken Vandermark. * Nonfiction from punk rock progenitors Richard Hell and Tav Falco. * The occupations of the anthology's contributors range from teachers, morticians, librarians, software developers, actors, and taco chefs to bartenders, farmers, musicians, and parents. Although from all over America (and beyond), almost 90% of the contributors read in Nashville at a DIY series called Poetry Sucks.
Tracks
Side A
Brian Baker - 2:00 (the last line is a perfect introduction to the music to come. beautiful poem)
Vox Arcan - 4:39
William Tyler - 8:28
Jem Cohen - 4:49
Side B
Ken Vandermark - 12:07
Sampson Starkweather - 4:38
Mystery Twins - 4:26
Side C
Jake Adam York - 2:32
Paul Wine Jones - 3:04
M Dot - 2:58
JP5 - 3:11
Paige - 2:09
Carlton Melton - 6:35
Side D
Destruction Unit - 18:15
Calliope Watford-Edelson - 2:00