Bob Dylan, Tarantula, 1966

As self-indulgent as his sleeve notes to Highway 61 Revisited, this appeared as an underground press publication around 1965/66 though not as a book until 1971. Marginally ‘beat lit’ at least in its aspirations, as a stream-of-consciousness text it would make better sense if Dylan had given himself narrower parameters within which to work, and is only identifiably ‘Dylanesque’ because each chapter is capped with some pretty shaky urban poetry. Yes, he always was a better songwriter than poet. May make more sense when stoned.  PY

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