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Tupelo Press is now distributor to the book trade for a group of audio recordings featuring collaborative performances by poets and musicians, a selection that we plan to widen in coming years. The CDs listed here are now available.
Publication Date: June 2010
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SKU: Pax PR90286
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Blue Square
Read by Peter Money
Musical Accompaniment by Mike Salvatoriello
Poems performed by author Peter Money with original music by Mike Salvatoriello (guitar, background vocal, keyboards, and percussion) along with Brian Peck (bass), Ryan Abraham (electric guitar), Owen Grenich-Young (flute), Shane (drums), Alex Haynes-Buob (keyboards). “Post-Ginsberg acoustic-electronic intimate meditative riffs and companionable pared-down House pulses, . . . sunny grooves to drive through any patterned rain . . . illuminated ‘traveler’s spoken journal opera.’”
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Publication Date: April 2010
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Format: Compact Disc
SKU: 781932 195866
Price: $12.00
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Calendars CD
Read by Annie Finch
Musical Accompaniment by Mac Ritchey
Calendars is Annie Finch’s Innovative Audio CD, featuring original Celtic harp music by Mac Ritchey.
To celebrate the Spring Equinox, we’re releasing the Audio CD of Annie Finch’s memorable and musical book of poetry, Calendars, one of Tupelo Press’s perennial bestsellers. Annie Finch brings to life her exquisite poems of love, time, sensuality, and the earth-centered spirituality of our era. Known internationally for her expertise in meter, rhyme, and the sounds of poetry, Finch has given hundreds of readings across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
The Calendars CD includes the poet herself reading all of the poems in the book, with musical interludes played on Celtic harp by Mac Ritchey of the ensemble 35th Parallel.
Annie Finch
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Annie Finch is author of the poetry collections Among the Goddesses (Red Hen), Calendars (Tupelo), The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt), and her first book Eve, recently reissued in Carnegie Mellon’s Classic Contemporaries Poetry Series. |
Publication Date: June 2010
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Format: Compact Disc
SKU: 46037 71052
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Come Over
by Patty Carpenter and The Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band
Vocalist/composer Patty Carpenter and poet Verandah Porche wrote their shared lives into songs chronicling years in rural communes and big cities. The band includes talented family members (including Scott Shetler on sax, clarinet, and mandolin) as well as Tony Garnier (bassist for Bob Dylan), James Wormworth (Tonight Show drummer), and Brian Mitchell (Levon Helm’s organist). Mastered by Grammy®-winning producer Rob Fabroni (Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Melissa Ethridge).
The Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band
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The Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band is a mother, father, daughter group who are often accused of functioning just fine, at least musically. Patty Carpenter and Melissa Shetler lead up the group on vocals. Their voices have an uncanny kinship and the harmonies blend seamlessly. Whether it’s through their original compositions, John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery” or Bobby Timmons “Moanin,” they bring new flavor to every tune they touch. Melissa’s father (and Patty’s ex) Scott Shetler plays tenor and baritone saxophones, clarinet, mandolin, penny whistle, and whatever it takes to back up these lovely ladies. Scott’s also been known to bring the house down with his unique interpretations of great classics like “Let’s Go Get Stoned” or Bobby Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe.” |
Publication Date: September 2010
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Format: Compact Disc
SKU: 978-1-932195-90-3
Price: $14.00
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Dogged Hearts CD
Read by Ellen Doré Watson
The companion CD to the Tupelo Master Series book, featuring original cello music by Dave Eggar.
In her fifth collection of poems, Ellen Doré Watson lends her supple voice to a multiplicity of characters, each with his or her own particular dilemma, distraction, or disarray: Junie biking home to find a new mom, Edur wondering whether he’s anyone’s father, a pregnant teen starving herself to lose the fetus, or the widower Lew buoyed by a vision of his wife after her death. With a novelist’s finesse and a poet’s details, Watson creates lives that resonate with poignancy and urgency.
In Dogged Hearts Ellen Doré Watson demonstrates a capacious talent for invention and empathy and, with her incomparable linguistic brio, gives us an unforgettable look at how loss and disconnection can usher in chance-to-change reverie and unexpected veerings towards life.
Ellen Doré Watson
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Ellen Doré Watson was hailed by Library Journal as one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Her previous collections of poems are We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music (Alice James, 2001 and 2002) and This Sharpening (Tupelo, 2006). She has also translated a dozen books, including The Alphabet in the Park (Wesleyan, 1990) by Brazilian poet Adélia Prado as well as contemporary Arabic poetry (co-translated with Saadi Simawe). She is the Poetry and Translation Editor for The Massachusetts Review and the director of The Poetry Center at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. |
Publication Date: December 2010
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SKU: 978-1-932195-98-9
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The Forest of Sure Things CD
Read by Megan Snyder-Camp
The companion CD to The Forest of Sure Things, featuring music by The Press Gang.
The Forest of Sure Things is a layered sequence of poems set in a remote, historic village at the tip of a peninsula on the Northwest Coast, near where Lewis and Clark encountered the Pacific. A pair of newlywed drifters has arrived and settled there, starting the town’s first new family in a hundred years. When their second child is stillborn, the bereft family unravels and un-roots themselves. Megan Snyder-Camp’s poems reveal — like the shoreline exposed by a neap tide — an emotional landscape pressed upon and buckling under the complications of grief and the difficulties of language.
With hypnotic, incantatory phrasing and imagery and an innovative approach to chronology, Snyder-Camp tells the story of the grieving couple, then dramatizes the impact of this enigmatic story on her imagination, her artistic practice, and her own new beginnings in married life and parenthood.
Based in part upon a brief, true story she was told, Snyder-Camp’s mysterious yet uncommonly compelling poetic sequence will draw the reader as if along a current pulling through the book. Acknowledging the importance of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Snyder-Camp has spoken of her fascination with where language frays, as we try and use “story” to create what we remember and see where we are. What happens in a place, or a family, or a body, when time catches, or stops?
Megan Snyder-Camp
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Megan Snyder-Camp grew up in Baltimore and received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Washington. She has been awarded scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Espy Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center. She has taught at the University of Washington and the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, where she lives with her family. |
Publication Date: June 2010
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SKU: 86851 14372
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In the Shade of Angels
by Eugene Friesen
New compositions for cello alone and with other instruments. Recorded in a stone church in Vermont, In the Shade of Angels explores the full range of Friesen’s original music --inventive improvisations, dark rhapsodies, swinging pizzicato, tuneful melodies, pulsing rhythms -- and includes a captivating duet with the song of a humpback whale. Guest musicians include Tim Ray (from Lyle Lovett’s band) adding sparkle and sweep on piano; Jamey Haddad (percussionist with Paul Simon) in a duet for hand drum and cello; and Jody Elff on electric guitar and laptop.
Eugene Friesen
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Eugene Friesen is a Grammy award winning cellist and composer. His recordings include Sono Miho, In The Shade of Angels, and The Song of Rivers. |
Publication Date: May 2011
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SKU: 978–1–932195–99–6
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the lake has no saint CD
by Stacey Waite
The companion CD to the Snowbound Award winning chapbook.
Stacey Waite’s the lake has no saint is a study in grief — a work of poetic archaeology that traces the artifacts of the past into the relationships of the present.
Embedded in a powerfully modulated sequence addressing a “you” who shifts in location and identity, many of these poems feel like forms of request, imploring. The speaker’s androgynous self-awareness — and wary attention to the gendered assumptions elicited by bodies — disclose in each poem a recognizable but disorienting (and pressurized) situation.
the lake has no saint will unsettle a reader’s sense of the certainty and stability of gender, as grammar and phrasing are also disrupted and blurred, often requiring us to read closely to hear where one sentence ends as another begins. Yet despite its formal and thematic iconoclasm, this is a book that clearly elucidates a story both heart-rending and ultimately — in its vatic honesty — triumphant.
Stacey Waite
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Stacey Waite is originally from Long Island, New York. S/he majored in English at Bucknell University and earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. S/he now teaches courses in Composition, Gender Studies, and Literature and Creative Writing as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. Waite has published two prior collections of poems: Choke (Thorngate Road, 2004), winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize; and Love Poem to Androgyny (Main Street Rag, 2007). Recent poems have been published in Bloom, The Marlboro Review, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review and Knockout. |
Publication Date: June 2010
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SKU: 00261 28242
Price: $20.00
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Last Days
by The Po-Jazz Ensemble
This is a 2-disc set. The Vermont project founded by poet and musician Tony Whedon. Recorded live with a torrid jazz octet that includes Steve Blair (guitar), Marina Back (violin), Tom Cleary (keyboards), Lar Duggan (piano), Dominique Gagne (flute), Dan Silverman (trombone), Tony Whedon (trombone), and Alex Wolston (trombone). Featuring poets Marina Back, David Budbill, David Cavanagh, Tom Cote, J.C. Ellefson, Clyde Stats, Dominque Gagne, Grace Albert-Gardner, Geof Hewitt, Neil Shepard, and Tony Whedon.
The Po-Jazz Ensemble
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Po-Jazz’s founder is Tony Whedon, whose trombone can also be heard regularly with the Barry Ries / Tony Whedon Quintet, has also published poems and essays in Harper’s, Agni, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, Shenandoah, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. He has published scores of essays on the literature, art, and music of the developing world, including Haiti, Ecuador, and Shanghai. His essay collection A Language Dark Enough won the 2002 Midlist Press award for creative nonfiction. His new book of essays Drunk in the Woods and the poetry collection Things to Pray To in Vermont are forthcoming from Midlist Press. |
Publication Date: June 2010
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SKU: 81585 13062
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Ogunquit & Other Works: Confluence
Read by J.D. Scrimgeour
Musical Accompaniment by Philip Swanson
A project that originated as a “teaching idea” from two active artist-teachers, Confluence demonstrates a vital conversation between original music and poems that include J.D. Scrimgeour’s “Ogunquit,” Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blue Light Lounge Sutra . . .,” Alan Feldman’s “Pavane,” and translations of Rilke by David Young and Edward Snow.
J.D. Scrimgeour
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J.D. Scrimgeour is the author of a collection of poetry, The Last Miles (2005) and two books of creative nonfiction, Spin Moves (2000) and Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class (2006), which won the Association of Writers &Writing Programs (AWP) Award for Creative Nonfiction. His poetry has appeared in such magazines as Poetry, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, River Styx, Tar River Poetry, Connecticut Review, and Diner, and it has won awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His nonfiction has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Creative Nonfiction. |
Philip Swanson
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Philip Swanson maintains a distinguished career as a trombonist, pianist, organist, composer, conductor and teacher. After completing his undergraduate work at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Miami, he received a Doctor of Musical Arts from New England Conservatory, a Master of Music from the Eastman School. As a trombonist, he has performed with the Miami Philharmonic, where he served as principal for five years, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Opera Boston, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and numerous other orchestras and ensembles. He is founder of the brass chamber ensemble Morgenmusik, which features trumpet virtuoso and Eastman professor James Thompson, and performs regularly with several jazz groups including Chamber Jazz Trio and Bob Nieske’s Big Wolf Project. |
Publication Date: January 2011
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SKU: 978–1–932195–91–0
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Poor-Mouth Jubilee CD
by Michael Chitwood
The companion CD to the Tupelo Master Series book, featuring original music by Tony Pisano.
Michael Chitwood’s seventh collection of poems is tremendously varied in shape and pace, from terse, reflexive aphorisms to rangy narratives.
Chitwood says of his new book, “During life struggles, well-meaning people often say ‘I’m praying for you,’ or they offer a secular equivalent. The poems in Poor-Mouth Jubilee explore that sentiment and the ways we use language to understand the myriad forms that intercession might take when asking the big spiritual and emotional questions. The poems in Poor-Mouth Jubilee are ghost stories, both holy and profane, and the ghosts have their motorcycles, their shotguns, and their public address systems.”
Michael Chitwood
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Born and raised in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge, Michael Chitwood attended Emory & Henry College (B.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.). Previous books include the poetry collections Salt Works and Whet (Ohio Review Books 1992 and 1995), The Weave Room (Chicago, 1998), and Spill (Tupelo, 2008). Chitwood has also published two prose books, Hitting Below the Bible Belt: Baptist Voodoo, Blood Kin, Grandma’s Teeth and Other Stories from the South (Down Home, 1998) and Finishing Touches (Tryon, 2006), and has had commentaries aired on North Carolina’s WUNC public radio station. He lives in Chapel Hill. |
Publication Date: November 2009
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SKU: 00261 22564
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Pure Water: Poetry of Rumi
Read by Coleman Barks
Musical Accompaniment by Eugene Friesen
Coleman Barks’s English interpretations of the Persian Sufi poet known as Rumi (1207–1273) have sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Barks’s dynamic performances with cellist Eugene Freisen underscore why Rumi is now one of the most widely loved poets in the U.S.
Coleman Barks
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One of the premier translators of Rumi, Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, Rumi: Bridge to the Soul and Rumi: The Book of Love. He has been a student of Sufism since 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words." |
Eugene Friesen
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Eugene Friesen is a Grammy award winning cellist and composer. His recordings include Sono Miho, In The Shade of Angels, and The Song of Rivers. |
Publication Date: June 2010
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SKU: ABF-CD1
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Selected Poems
Read by Alice B. Fogel
“The marvelous specificities of her poems demonstrate a fierce and admirable passion . . . with a steadfast gaze at the natural world as intense and perfectly rendered as that of Rilke's panther.”—Publishers Weekly
“Fogel demonstrates a fine sense of stanza — an understanding of poetic closure and dramatic timing far beyond that of most free-verse poets. . . . ‘Ravishing perception’ seems to pervade Fogel’s work . . . both elegantly and powerfully. . . . One can see the dance of intellect from word to word [as she] dramatize[s] the complexities of consciousness.”—Alan Michael Parker, Chelsea Magazine
“Fogel is a poet alert to every nuance of the inner life, a true phenomenologist of the soul in that New England tradition to which both Emily Dickinson and Jane Kenyon belong. She is one of the best poets we have.”—Charles Simic
“[Fogel’s work] twines the themes of complicated subjects, often in mesmerizing form.”—Robert Hass, Washington Post
Alice B. Fogel
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Alice Fogel is a poet, writer, and teacher. She is author of three poetry collections, most recently Be That Empty (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007), which was on the Poetry Foundation’s poetry bestseller list for four weeks in 2008. She is also the author of Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader (Hobblebush Books, 2009). |