STORYTELLER SERIES: BRIAN G. GILMORE 'COME SEE ABOUT ME, MARVIN' (WSU
Press) Reading and Book Signing FREE EVENT, OPEN TO ALL.
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
READING STARTS AT 2pm.
You may reserve a seat by registering at Eventbrite.
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Reserved seats are guaranteed, walk-ins will be acommodated as
space allows.
come see about me, marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for
real people. In the collection, brian g. gilmore seeks to invite the
reader into a fantastical dialogue between himself and Marvin
Gaye—two black men who were born in the nation’s capital, but who
moved to the Midwest for professional ambitions. In trying to
acclimate himself to a new job in a new place—a place that seemed so
different from the home he had always known—gilmore often looked to
Marvin Gaye as an example for how to be. These poems were derived as a
means of coping in a strange land.
The book is divided into four sections, beginning with section one,
"love that will shelter you," and features poems about dealing with
life in Michigan as it is in reality. Sections two and three, "nowhere
to hide" and "no ordinary pain," include poems about the brutality of
the Midwest and some of the historical realities as gilmore came to
understand them. The final section, "let your love come shining
through," attempts to invoke hope in poetry.
come see about me, marvin is gilmore’s answer to life’s perplexing
issues, with Marvin Gaye as the perfect vehicle to explore these
ideals. Readers of poetry and lovers of Motown will embrace this love
letter to a local legend.
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