Re: kafka and rilke

Usually, I agree. However, I have several books of lyrics; Lou Reed, Bob
Dylan, Kate Bush, etc, and I read them as poetry. In fact, I've never heard
many of the songs listed.
tina

>all of these singer-songwriters are just that:
>songwriters, not poets.
>
>when we read their words on the page, it's after
>having heard them in the song. we write some of the
>words down--quote some--but also hear the music
>accompanying the words, hear that voice we've grown to
>love singing the words. we're not simply reading just
>the actual words.
>
>or so it seems to me.
>

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