The Ballad of Bob Dylan
A Music, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction book. Poetry, as Allen Ginsberg reminded his friends, is news that stays news. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Ballad...
Through the lens of four seminal concerts, acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein offers an intimate, nuanced look at Bob Dylan: a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artistsof the twentieth century, from his birth to the Never Ending Tour.Beginning with 1963’s Lisner Auditorium concert in Washington, D.C., Epstein revisits Dylan’s astonishing rise as the darling of the folk revival, focusing on the people and books that shaped him, and his struggle to find artistic direction on the road in the1960s. Madison Square Garden,...
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- Pages: 496 pages
- ISBN: 9780061807329 / 0
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The Eternal Circle, Dylan called it, the timeless story of the emotional loop between the singer and the audience, feeding on each other, one locked in the light, the other in the darkness of the theater, no one ever completely satisfied. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait // Poetry, as Allen Ginsberg reminded his friends, is news that stays news. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait // Someone else asked Dylan if he believed television and the media had killed poetry. Oh, absolutely. Because literature is written for the public. Theres nobody anymore like Kafka who just sits down and writes something without wanting somebody to read it. These days, he argued, the mass media have preempted the precious paths of communication that once belonged to poets and their readers. We see things on television that are more horrifying, sad, or hilarious than we are likely to see in real life. The news shows people things that they couldnt even...
No one who thinks about Bob Dylan thinks about him as if he were a normal human being, much less a regular guy. I can't think of one person who's written about Dylan who has cast him as anything approaching normal. If Dylan is a genius - and he is - he must be a tortured genius, otherwise there's no story. So biographers find evidence... people who wished they had of kept that teenage band together. Well written, you can tell Epstein has a background in prose and in music. Similar in nature to Sean Wilentz' Bob Dylan In America in that it does have somewhat of a biographical narrative, but it's not all-inclusive or linear, focusing more on historical relevance and a personality analysis with the biographical part setting the scene.I...
