- Paperback: 137 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; Reissue edition (31 Dec 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312105541
- ISBN-13: 978-0312105549
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,639,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Chronicles Volume 1:
‘Takes its place next to “On The Road “…as an essential record of an American artist’s manifest destiny.’ Observer
'Like discovering the lost diaries of Shakespeare… Maybe the most extraordinarily intimate autobiography by a 20th-century legend.' Daily Telegraph
'There are enough bizarre and entertaining snippets of information sprinkled throughout to fascinate the most jaded Dylan obsessive.' Independent
'Entertaining and surprisingly deprecating…“Chronicles Volume ” is tautly written, vividly cinematic, and funny'. Financial Times
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Tarantula is a poetic work that shows Bob Dylan at a point in his artistic evolution when word play and the exploration of spontaneously occurring ideas came as naturally to him as breathing. An essential volume for those seeking further insight into Dylan's creative process, this book of poetry opens the door to an engaging and thought-provoking free-verse world in which to lose oneself.
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aretha/ crystal jukebox queen of hymn & him diffused in drunk transfusion wound would heed sweet soundwave crippled & cry salute to oh great particular el dorado reel & ye battered personal god but she cannot she the leader of whom when ye follow, she cannot she has no back she cannot . . . Read the first page
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aretha/ crystal jukebox queen of hymn & him diffused in drunk transfusion wound would heed sweet soundwave crippled & cry salute to oh great particular el dorado reel & ye battered personal god but she cannot she the leader of whom when ye follow, she cannot she has no back she cannot . . . Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
its probably safe to say that only a dylan fan would enjoy this experimental work. very interesting. A glimpse into the unconcious mind of a genius. filled with seemingly random metaphors in the stream of conciousness writing style typical of dylan, showing similarities to songs such as, Bob Dylans 115th Dream and Tombstone Blues. Certain sentences that i really liked, often humorous or insightful. dylan fans must get this.
Format:Paperback
I am pretty obsessed with Bob Dylan and his work. He is one of my favourite writers and i cannot get enough of him, which is why i felt compelled, after re-reading his first volume of memoirs for the second time, to pick up his only other non-lyric publication. Some of the word play is quite funny but this is not a novel, nor is it really poetry. It seems, as i have heard rumoured, that Dylan found himself contracted to write a book and knocked off Tarantula without much thought to get out of the contract. I doubt Dylan himself considers this a serious work of literature and i doesn't seem like one to me. Its cut-up and stream of consciousness style doesn't work in the way that the work of William Burroughs (this book is perhaps comparable to something like The Soft Machine) often does. Unless you're a Dylan completist i would give this a miss, there isn't much in the text that anything but an obsessive would find satisfying.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I'm 17 and I've listened to Dylan for about 5 years. Over this period of time I've grown more and more impressed with Dylan's poetic genius. His songs are undoubtedely his claim to fame but I feel that "Tarantula" is the key to understanding his writing. "Tarantula" proves that Dylan was and still is a modern blend of Whitman, Rimbaud, Genet, Ginsberg, Guthrie, and Picasso. "Tarantula's" cut up style has been called "a muddled stream of self conciousness" but I beg to differ. If there has been any writer in our time that has captured the language of our times and helped us examine the world we live in I think it is Dylan. I hope he eventually receives the Nobel Prize for literature that he truly deserves. He is living proof that poetry can touch "the masses", he defies the narrow definition of a poet that ivory tower intellectuals have forced on people for years. The language of Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, albums that changed the way people perceived songs, reaches new heights in "Tarantula".
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Don't buy this book
..borrow it from a friend instead. In five minutes you'll know whether you like it or not. I bought it on publication and have been given copies since. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2009 by Hadlitt
A few funny parts, but...
If you want to sample some Dylan "prose poems", save yourself some time and read the liner notes to Highway 61. Tarantula is those notes stretched out over 150 pages. Read more
Published on 15 May 1999
Totally Bob
This book is a mindblower. I love anything Dylan has done, but this is a classic collection of the ultimate Bobstream. My copy is a gorgeous first edition hardcover, with jackets. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 1999
Dylan twist on the 60's
Though bizzare, the book is a great read. You may need to read it several times, to get the full feel of the man and the decade. Great stories, and fun to read. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 1998
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Walking down Desolation Row you will find the Insanity Factory. If you survive the Wipe Out Gang,you could find Dylan Boy, shot to death by an Edipo.What the hell happens? Read more
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