Do You, Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors by Neil Corcoran
In 'Ballad of a Thin Man' in 1965, Dylan launched a withering attack on the myopic critic of culture:
'Something is happening here But you don't know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones?' Yet Dylan himself has been a subject of consuming interest to many of the most significant poets and critics over the last thirty years.
It has even been argued that he is the finest living user of the English language - true to his genius through all his changes of stance, constantly exploring the state of his soul as he dons the cloak of lover, clown, cowboy, priest, bleak prophet of doom.
Contributors are Simon Armitage, Richard Brown, Christopher Butler, Bryan Cheyette, Patrick Crotty, Aidan Day, Mark Ford, Lavinia Greenlaw, Daniel Karlin, Paul Muldoon, Nicholas Roe, Pamela Thurschwell, Susan Wheeler and Sean Wilentz.
Serious Dylan criticism is rare and these fascinating, specially commissioned essays are rigorous and challenging, at once a celebration and a questioning of a powerful talent, the genius Leonard Cohen called 'the Picasso of song'.
Paperback | 384 pages
138 x 216 x 26mm | 415g
01 Oct 2003
Vintage Publishing
Pimlico
London, United Kingdom
English
0712668241
9780712668248
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minimal scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged, with very minimal (barely visible) creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.