Twin Lead Lines

Third Man Books will hire Justin Hargett of Kick Flip PR to support Lou Turner's Twin Lead Lines. Lou Turner is also the lead person in critically acclaimed indie band Stryofoam Winos. She has her own PR team who will also be pushing the book. 

 ●“Skeptical of the brightest lights in her home city of Nashville, Turner instead turns her attention to tiny details and tender moments from daily life… She makes    pillowy bread, curious house cats, and “the land of big heads” seem equally poetic. Delivered with warmth and a winking smile, each song has the satisfaction of flipping a rock in the garden and discovering a busy world beneath its surface.” – Allison Hussey, Pitchfork

 ●       Lou Turner is one of the most promising indie rock songwriters in Nashville right now to my ears… one of my favorite new discoveries.” — Ann Powers, NPR Music

●      Nationally-touring songwriter and musician (solo and with bands Styrofoam Winos, Ryan Davis + The Roadhouse Band) who’s shared the stage with artists like Peter One, MJ Lenderman, and Cassie Berman (Silver Jews). Her solo records have been featured by NPR Music, Pitchfork, Uncut Magazine, and dozens more.

●      A central figure of the book is Little Jimmy Dickens, the longest running member of the Grand Ole Opry at the time of his death in 2015 – a legend of country music and a distant relative of Turner’s. Dickens lived in Nashville, where Turner lives, and where the Grand Ole Opry as well as Third Man Books are based. 

●      Published, prize-winning poet with work in various journals and magazines; editor of the literary magazine Quarter Notes; holds an MFA in poetry from Randolph College where she served as an editor for Revolute and studied with Layli Long Soldier, Jos Charles, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Paige Lewis.

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Twin Lead Lines, the remarkably original debut from poet and Styrofoam Winos musician Lou Turner, is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of listening deeply to others and oneself. Turner's distant cousin and Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens plays a role in the poems as part-muse, part-foil, and full lode star -- not flawless, but bright -- for the poems to orient around as Turner maps her own voice and calling to artmaking. Dickens is Turner's partner in one of many of the duets played throughout Twin Lead Lines; along with a book-length series of anagram couplets, the twin-lead wire used to transmit radio signals, and the twin lead style of guitar playing made popular by Dickens’ band. Turner deftly moves between traditional and invented forms in these poems, which – like a country song – are by turns funny and searching.