Sister Gertrude Morgan : Tools of Her Ministry

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Summary: She's a cross between W. Blake and Blind Willy Mctell...
Review: astonishing and super-real in everything she sang and wrote and preached, I am totally awestruck and undone and remade as a book poet or cultural critic, I here give thanks for Sister Gertrude Morgan who showed me a way forward in American poesis. Yes, the city of God is a tenement in New Orleans, chants and warns the poet-saint in the French Quarter, standing in "the headquarters of sin" and with washington under prolonged possession of Lucifer forces who think they are the brides of christ as they sell blackhawk down war missions to the young and the US mass media goes along with its neo-liberal blessing of praise and babble pretending to be critique. Well, thank the American Folk Museum for finding this God-given poet and preacher named Sister Gwertrude Morgan and bringing her back into eternal circulation here and now. "Walking on water wasn't built in a day" as Bob Kauffman put it, we need to remember this at a time when it feels like we are living inside a Rome cum Babylon-made empire of war, greed, vanity, and death. Poetry might help in the battle for the republic, the soul of the nation fallen to the sleepwalkers.

All I can do is praise her and give 10 stars of poetic honor.