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Even the suggestion of Robert Johnson reading “Cane” makes my head swirl. I’ve sometimes wondered if Dylan’s famous “ghost of electricity…” line was transmuted from Toomer’s “Her Lips are Copper Wire” as I mentioned in my notes when performing Toomer’s poem https://frankhudson.org/2019/02/11/her-lips-are-copper-wire last year.
Even the suggestion of Robert Johnson reading “Cane” makes my head swirl. I’ve sometimes wondered if Dylan’s famous “ghost of electricity…” line was transmuted from Toomer’s “Her Lips are Copper Wire” as I mentioned in my notes when performing Toomer’s poem https://frankhudson.org/2019/02/11/her-lips-are-copper-wire last year.