The Red Light Was My Mind: Stories / Poems - Softcover

Wilkens, Gary Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933896043 ISBN 13: 9781933896045

Verlag: Texas Review Press, 2007

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"Red dust, love and whiskey blues: this is poetry of strength and ferocity. Read it and marvel. Gary C. Wilkens is the best poet of his generation, and as good as any who came before him." - Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow"

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Inspired by the culture, music, history and mythology of the Blues, ""The Red Light Was My Mind"" captures the tone, rhythms, sounds, images, and myths of the Mississippi Blues. Son House, Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Peetie Wheatstraw, Billie Holiday, Jack Johnson, and a cast of entirely fictitious and mythical figures embody the region's legendary past and its often harsh present. These stories wind through a number of related narrative threads, interlaced with poems reflecting a myriad of Blues forms: songs, hollers, monologues, folktales, chants, spells, and sermons. Love, death, evil, sorrow, violence, and dancing fill the Blues and inhabit these poems.

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• Verlag: Texas Review Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933896043
• ISBN 13: 9781933896045
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80