Poetry. African American Studies. A native of Los Angeles, California, K. Curtis Lyle became a founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop and a principal member of the Los Angeles renaissance. Lyle's lyrical pieces have been widely adapted to music, and draw from and utilize traditions of ritual and performance. ELECTRIC CHURCH is a compilation of selections from a number of books and chapbooks from Lyle's career since 1967.
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