[lit-ideas] Re: Bob Dylan - A Poet?
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:03:03 -0400
On the other hand the current Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, is a
big Dylan
fan with few qualms about singing the praises of the poetic
qualities of
Dylan's work.
Rachmaninoff often attended Art Tatum concerts and praised
Tatum's piano playing. Doesn't make Art Tatum a post-romantic or
orchestral composer. Instead Tatum is regarded as a great jazz
pianist.
But sure, Dylan could fairly be regarded as a poet.
In Soviet Russia, where poetry was much more important than it is
in the West, a group of folksinger-bards also gained immense
underground popularity.
Read about Bulat Okudzhava.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulat_Okudzhava
He considered himself a poet. So did a lot of text-only poets.
Nabokov mentions him in _Ada_.
Yevtushenko wrote of Okudzhava, “popularity came to him when he
picked up his guitar and started singing a very simple, and very
melodic music to his poems. Soon everyone across the USSR was
singing them, students and workers in the communes, and his
unofficially published records were circulating in thousands of
illegal copies on tapes. Okudzhava – the father of a very immense
movement of bards in the USSR, out of which came out such amazing
poets as A. Galich, and V. Vysotsky.”
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