Are songs poetry?
Are songs poetry? Friday October 22, 2004from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Bob Dylan ranked with Shakespeare, by Dan DeLuca Reviewing Oxford poetry professor Christopher Ricks new book on Bob Dylans songs, Dylans Visions of Sin (HarperCollins, 2004), DeLuca gets to the heart of the matter right away: Do great pop songs qualify as great poems? from Minnesota Daily: Poems are made by fools like me, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan gives poetry a try, by Keri Carlson Citing Dylan as the source of our accepted belief that songwriters are poets, Carlson reviews Corgans newly released collection of poems, Blinking with Fists (Faber & Faber, 2004), and finds it wanting. But in the process she makes an interesting distinction between music writing & page writing. To buy the boo
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Bob Dylan ranked with Shakespeare, by Dan DeLuca Reviewing Oxford poetry professor Christopher Ricks new book on Bob Dylans songs, Dylans Visions of Sin (HarperCollins, 2004), DeLuca gets to the heart of the matter right away: Do great pop songs qualify as great poems? from Minnesota Daily: Poems are made by fools like me, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan gives poetry a try, by Keri Carlson Citing Dylan as the source of our accepted belief that songwriters are poets, Carlson reviews Corgans newly released collection of poems, Blinking with Fists (Faber & Faber, 2004), and finds it wanting. But in the process she makes an interesting distinction between music writing & page writing. To buy the books: Dylans Visions of Sin
