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After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace

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After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory PalaceA familiar narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was controversially awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative. That is not this story. Here, instead, is Dylan's second thirty years. Across an

A familiar narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s--only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was controversially awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative.

That is not this story.

Here, instead, is Dylan's second thirty years. Across an abecedarium of chapters surveying his albums, performances, films, and books since 1991--since that rainy February night in New York City when Dylan, then forty-nine, accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, signaling in effect that his extraordinary vocation as a vital and indispensable creative force had ended, was over--After the Flood reveals Dylan's creative output during the last three decades as his most ambitious and accomplished yet.

Drawing on thousands of pages from Dylan's newly opened archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and anatomizing hundreds of published and unpublished lyrics, liner notes, and more, celebrated poet and biographer Robert Polito demonstrates how Dylan evolved a late musical style that has equally embodied and resisted its era, interweaving folk process and American and world history, and transforming spectral cultural memory into devastating inspiration. Polito thus establishes Dylan as an intensely literary songwriter whose recent writings, especially, are dynamic, intricate, and far-reaching collages.

Between Good as I Been to You (1992) and Shadow Kingdom (2023), across Desert Storm, 9/11, and COVID-19, Polito shows that Dylan revitalized lines and contexts from sources as diverse as classical Greece and Rome, the American Civil War, and film noir, tipping Henry Timrod, poet laureate of the Confederacy, into Muddy Waters; slanting Herman Melville, John Winthrop, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow into Stephen Foster, Dan Emmett, and Al Jolson; and secreting Marcel Proust into his own literal California backyard--to touch on just a few of the storerooms inside Dylan's astonishing "memory palace."

Imaginatively researched, boldly arranged, and with elegiac insights into the cunning behind his songs, After the Flood is an essential revision and continuation of the Dylan saga, and a must-read for all Dylan enthusiasts.
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If I have any complaints about this study Bible, it's that it doesn't have a large print edition. I do have The Amplified Bible (not a study edition) in large print; therefore, I have the option to read the large print and then refer to the study Bible for the explanations. This is a fantastic study Bible for beginners as well as us seasoned vets in Christianity. A clarification: The print in the study Bible isn't tiny; it's more of a 9-point, comfort font. There are footnotes at the bottom of each page; however, Scriptures are clarified right in the text, making for seamless reading with no interruptions. At the back of the Bible, there are maps in color; theological notes index by title, and the most complete Topical Index (aka concordance) I've ever seen. I have owned and still own many study Bibles; but I am most impressed with this one. If you are a KJV-only believer, I highly recommend having this one handy to help you understand the KJV and/or NKJV even better. My strict KJV-only pastor even recommends The Amplified Study Bible to new believers and to us older ones, too. Complex spiritual matters are well explained. I highly recommend this for everyone, no matter where you are in your spiritual journey!
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I love this bible! It has great size for print, not squinting. It explains at the bottom of the page to further explain parts of the verses. Explains further in parenthesis as well. I love this bible!
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I enjoy using study Bibles and this is my first Amplified Bible, so buying the newly updated Amplified Study Bible was very appealing to me. What wasn't evident from the product page is that the Bible is in large print. While the print is not huge, it is very readable. The Bible is large at over 2,000 pages; however, it is not too heavy and bulky for my use. I am easily able to keep notes in the room left on the margins and the paper quality is nice enough to hold up to my ink pens. I am really enjoying the “amplified” part of this Bible. As I mentioned, this is my first experience with this translation and I wasn't sure what to expect. I find that the amplified meanings (in parentheses) adds to my understanding of the verses and to the overall meaning of what I am reading. The study portion of the Bible with the explanations and cross-references is done extremely well. That there are full color maps at the back is another wonderful resource. I picked up the hardback version for myself and will be picking up another one for my husband. That way we can share our Bible study time. I am also planning on giving this as a gift to family members. I plan to buy the soft faux-leather brown and the purple for birthday gifts throughout the year. While I am generally a fan of Kindle books, I find that, for me, a printed Bible is preferable.
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