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Gary Charles Wilkens
(Aka Gary C. Wilkens)
(Poet)
[1976 - ] |
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The Red Light Was My Mind (2007)
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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