Dylan, eyebrows up and lids down, spoke in intense staccato. He’d throw words out in rhythmic phrases, testing the articulation of his thought by speaking it. He would smoke distractedly, bob his knee as if dandling a kid, and diddle …
FE Author: Paul Jay Robbins
Bob Dylan as Dylan
by Bob Dylan, Paul Jay Robbins
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
This Interview Is something of a rarity in that it is one of the very few—if any—in which Dylan volunteered to talk to and with his interviewer in a manner honest and meaningful. However, I do not claim to have …
Bob Dylan as Dylan
by Bob Dylan, Paul Jay Robbins
Fifth Estate # 10, July 15, 1966
In Dylan’s sixth album he sings a major poem called “Desolation Road.” One stanza has to do with Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot sitting in the captain’s tower arguing for power while calypso dancers leap on the deck and fishermen …