The United States Of Poetry (1996 Television Documentary) [Spoken Word] [Soundtrack]

Tomandandy, United States of Poetry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 5, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EJP
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,904 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Driftwood Feeling - Henry Real Bird

2. Opening - Tomandandy

3. Green Light And Gamma Ways - Thylias Moss

4. Democracy - Leonard Cohen

5. Soldier's Drill - Found Poetry #1

6. Telephone Booth #905 1/2 - Pedro Pietri

7. Slot Machine - Emily XYZ

8. James Joyce - Matt Cook

9. Stoplight Politics - Ruth Foreman

10. Project Princess - Tracie Morris

11. The X Is Black (Spike Lie) - Amiri Baraka

12. Turning Forty - Pearl Cleage

13. A Three Point Shot From Andromeda - Paul Beatty

14. So Beautiful - Indran Amirthanayagam

15. Personals Ad - Allen Ginsberg

16. Crumbs - Hal Sirowitz

17. Tours - C.D. Wright

18. Good Shepard: Atlanta, 1981 - Al

19. Double Dutch Rhymes - Found Poetry # 2

20. Sista: Boss Of The Food - Lois-Ann Yamanaka

See all 37 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best mix of new American urban poetry & music, May 17, 1998

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Luis Franco ([e-mail]) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The United States Of Poetry (1996 Television Documentary) [Spoken Word] (Audio CD)

Great selections from the independent video project, featuring Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Allen Gisberg, Ruth Forman, Amiri Bakara among others. The spoken words are wonderfully wrapped with Jazz, Rap, eletronic & classical music. Unfortunatelly, there are some other great poems missing from the original video score (such as Micheal Franti's and Jonny Depp's voices).

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So Beautiful, March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The United States Of Poetry (1996 Television Documentary) [Spoken Word] (Audio CD)

This is a good and sometimes powerful recording, worthwhile if only for the so beautiful "So Beautiful" by Indran Amirthanayagam.