David Franks Discography of CDs

David Franks albums This poem is accessible, balls-out fun- poetry for people who fear poetry. Fast and funny, like the best of Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch, "Pay Attention" will make you laugh out loud. Until you realize you're laughing at yourself and everyone you know. You might start crying, but you'll be glad you did. Honest and original. David Franks makes poetry lovers of us all. David Franks is one of the very few of my contemporaries who Continues to amaze... -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Short Bio David Franks makes poems on the page, ...

David Franks music CDs These poems are accessible, balls-out fun- poetry for people who fear poetry. Fast and funny, like the best of Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch, "Love Is Making Me Sick" will make you laugh out loud. Until you realize you're laughing at yourself and everyone you know. You might start crying, but you'll be glad you did. Honest and original. David Franks makes poetry lovers of us all. David Franks is one of the very few of my contemporaries who Continues to amaze... -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Short Bio David Franks makes poems on the page, ...

David Franks discography "WHISTLING IN THE DARK!" - (a non-futile exercise in futility!) The noble &, to my mind, singularly American object of this piece was - "to use great ingenuity & time consuming labor - to end up at the same place I began with a loss of quality!" I have lived on & off for many years in Baltimore. When I have lived in Baltimore, it has always been in Fells Point, which is the oldest part of the City & right on the Harbor. The harbor block I live on houses two ...

David Franks songs MUSICAL WORDS (A Universal Death-into-Life Lullabye) excerpts from the "Intimate Pages"... At best, I am simple minded, & the two melic poems on this CD that are informed by a concept -Musical Words & Whistling in the Dark -reflect this quality. The title poem Musical Words (a Universal Death-into-Life Lullabye) is composed from two words -"d.e.a.d" & "B.A.B.E". For the letters that spell the words, I substitute musical chords that correspond to these letters. The "d.e.a.d" chords are minor chords because I wanted them to have a more plaintive registration than the more cheerful "B.A.B.E" chords which are major. MUSICAL WORDS The Poem has four movements: The first is made of five chorales. In each chorale, the Musical Word "d.e.a.d" moves one step at a time through the Musical Word "B.A.B.E"; until by the fifth chorale, it has passed through it entirely & the choir sings: "B.A.B.E" fol- lowed by "d.e.a.d". Spelled out the five progressions look like this: First Movement: (five chorales} d . B . e . A . a . B . d . E B . d . A . e . ...