Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work

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By Timothy Hampton *87

Published Jan. 18, 2019

Taking a cue from Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan’s Poetics (Zone Press) analyzes Dylan’s body of work as poetry, placing many of Dylan’s most famous songs in a literary context.

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