Language Lessons: Volume I
By (Author) Ben Swank
Edited by Chet Weise
Contributions by C.D. Wright
Contributions by Frank Stanford
Contributions by Richard Hell
Third Man Books
Third Man Books
22nd July 2014
United States
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Popular music
Biography: arts and entertainment
Composers and songwriters
Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Anthologies: general
811.509
339
Width 317mm, Height 317mm
2026g
"A mighty object to behold . . . enchanting . . . a complicated, intriguing development in the power struggle between the analog and the digital."Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Third Man project originated from a weekly poetry series in Nashville that attracted both ends of the poetry spectrumestablished national award winners (Pulitzer Prize finalists Dale Ray Phillips and Adrian Matejka) and complete unknowns such as local bartenders, teachers and even a mortician. Both are side-by-side in the book for a purpose."Chicago Tribune
Language Lessons:Volume Iis a box-set including two vinyl LPs of music and recitations, a hardcover book with 300+ pages of literary fiction, biography, and poetry, and five frameable broadsides.
Ben Swank is a co-founder of Third Man Records in Nashville, Tennessee. A musician himself, He has played with bands such as Henry & June and Soledad Brothers. Swank has been published in The Guardian, Vice and NME, and has an advice column in the Nashville Scene.