Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen, with a PREFACE BY WILLY BRAUN OF RECKLESS KELLY edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper
Back cover of Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen. Text is a repeat of what's on the page here, over a muted version of the front cover with oil painted guitar.
  • Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen, with a PREFACE BY WILLY BRAUN OF RECKLESS KELLY edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper
  • Back cover of Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen. Text is a repeat of what's on the page here, over a muted version of the front cover with oil painted guitar.

    • Wild Wind

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    Poems and Stories Inspired
    by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen

    PREFACE BY WILLY BRAUN OF RECKLESS KELLY
    edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper
    ISBN: 978-1-963695-01-4 paperback $22.95
    ISBN: 978-1-963695-02-1 ebook $9.99
    November 19, 2024

    This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Keen’s contemporaries Lyle Lovett and James McMurtry. The poems and short stories here are each inspired by Keen’s songs, some expansions of themes of Keen’s songs, others move in creative directions suggested by the characters in his work. Keen’s songs are impressive for their literary sensibility (he was an English major at Texas A&M University) and have influenced many songwriters as well as authors of fiction and poetry.

    What an amazing storyteller/songwriter with songs so full of life, humor and often a deeper undercurrent of pathos and humanity. He’s a national treasure whose work will endure.—Patterson Hood of Drive By Truckers

    “The Road Goes on Forever” was like a baseball bat hitting me on the side of the head, because I know those people in that song. It’s a great live song.—Joe Ely, Texas singer-songwriter, author of “Me and Billy the Kid”

    Robert Earl Keen’s touch with lyrics is obvious. Every song is a story with a unique physical setting. It’s the music, however, that delivers those lyrics as a seamless, extremely musical whole. Each song has its own framework, supporting the story in every way and creating a rich scene in the listener’s mind.—Kathy Barwick, bluegrass and folk multi-instrumentalist

    I saw Robert on Austin City Limits around 1986, and I’ve listened to him ever since. That’s around the time I started writing songs.  Music like his is what took me to Nashville a few years later. Bigger Piece of Sky is one of my top ten albums. I think he’s one of the all time best songwriters I ever heard.—Chris Knight, Singer/Songwriter and honorary Texan

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    Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen, with a PREFACE BY WILLY BRAUN OF RECKLESS KELLY edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron CooperWild Wind: Poems and Stories
    Inspired by the Songs of
    Robert Earl Keen

    PREFACE BY WILLY BRAUN OF RECKLESS KELLY
    edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper
    ISBN: 978-1-963695-01-4 paperback $22.95
    ISBN: 978-1-963695-02-1 ebook $9.99
    November 19, 2024

    Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen is an anthology of poems and short stories that pay homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Keen’s contemporaries Lyle Lovett and James McMurtry. The poems and short stories here are each inspired by Keen’s songs, some expansions of themes of Keen’s songs, others move in creative directions suggested by the characters in his work. Keen’s songs are impressive for their literary sensibility (he was an English major at Texas A&M University) and have influenced many songwriters as well as authors of fiction and poetry.

    Contributors

    Preface: Willy Braun
    Poetry: Alan Birkelbach – Rick Campbell – Greg Clary – Andrew E. Coats – Rupert Fike – Cal Freeman – Carol Kraus – karla k. morton – Jeff Newberry – Garrison M. Somers
    Fiction: Heath Bowen – Michael Cody – Ron Cooper – Sandra Cooper – Patrick Michael Finn – Scott Gould – Donna Wojnar Dzurilla – Bobby Horecka – Patti Meredith
    Memoir: Kimberly Parish Davis
    Screenplay: Janna Jones

    Editors

    Editors Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron CooperSouth Carolina natives Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper have lived in Florida since 1988 and have been fans of Robert Earl Keen for nearly as long. They both teach at the College of Central Florida where Sandra specializes in American literature, and Ron specializes in philosophy and world religions.

    Additional information

    Weight 7 oz
    Dimensions 8.5 × 5.5 × .3 in
    Edition

    Ebook, Paperback

    1 review for Wild Wind

    1. kpdavis –

      Keen is such a story-teller himself, this collection was fun to assemble with imagined stories to go along with the songs where REK has set the stage.

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