Pekelnej pes má na mě vztek - Variace na texty starých bluesmanů – Bystrov Michal (2024)

Michal Bystrov has long been engaged with music in connection with poetry and history. He has given shape to his variations on the texts of old African American bluesmen in an unconventional poetry collection, in which he was freely inspired by the style and content of more than three hundred legendary recordings. Verses full of humor, darkness, and playful musicality led him indirectly to the very essence of those ancient stories. By adhering to his own poetics, he came closer to the spirit of pre-war blues than if he had attempted a faithful copy. Many years after the publication of the cult works of Lubomír Dorůžka and Josef Škvorecký, which this book follows, the world of midnight crossroads, conjurers, magical pouches, early gramophones, last trains, abandoned stations, unfaithful lovers, bumblebees, flowers, drivers, jockeys, and racehorses, big black snakes, false players, prison farms, electric chairs, smuggled whiskey, floods, blizzards, and other gifts comes alive again in the Czech language. Judgment Day is at the door: the fools rejoice, the sinners preach, and Satan has jumped. "I search as I walk, asking everyone what the human soul is, where it hides," growls Blind Willie Johnson. "I never had the blues, the blues always had me," claims Brownie McGhee. "Blues...