Poetry. Music. Art. Book + CD. A collection of free-verse pop art-songs, PINK THUNDER is the result of contributions from 23 poets, three engineers, and a few dozen musicians. What began as a bus tour that brought together hundreds of American poets has been recorded and remixed into a potent collection of poem-songs--composed, produced, and sung by Michael Zapruder. Potent with weird, funny, and singular possibilities, the music in PINK THUNDER takes its form entirely from the shape of the poems that drive it--as if the poem were a stamp and the music hot wax. The result is a collection of musical readings both compelling and surprising. Containing color photos of the bus tour and the recording sessions, alongside hand-lettered and illustrated copies of poems by some of today's most compelling contemporary poets, this deluxe hardcover book with CD is sure to be a collector's item. You are invited to listen.Poets included are Joshua Beckman, David Berman, Carrie St. George Comer, Gillian Conoley, Bob Hicok, Tyehimba Jess, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Laskey, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Anthony McCann, Valzhyna Mort, Sierra Nelson, Hoa Nguyen, Travis Nichols, D. A. Powell, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Ruefle, James Tate, Joe Wenderoth, Dara Wier, and Matthew Zapruder.
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