Tone Poems are poetry/music pieces where words and original music work together as equals. Here are a two samples that set poems from my new book, Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn:
… Tone Poems: poems with original music
Poems from Deep Pockets
Here are three poems from my book, Deep Pockets, published by Saint Julian Press in 2018. Thanks to Ron Starbuck.
Tomas Tranströmer
In Robert Bly’s introduction to his translations of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, he writes:
One of the most beautiful qualities in [these] poems is the space we feel in them. … Tomas Tranströmer
Review of Deep Pockets
Richard Jarrette, author of Beso the Donkey and several other books of poetry, wrote this review. In it, he quotes Dan Gerber, whose most recent book of poetry, Particles: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press.
Diary of an Immigrant
Diary of an Immigrant is a 16mm film I made while in film school in 1981. It was premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. The film juxtaposes images of contemporary Wisconsin with imaginary diary entries of my Italian grandfather as he traveled to the new world 100 years ago. Think The Emigrants meet Stroszek.
Daniel Thomas 