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   > medium through which he felt that he was no longer fully able to express   
   > his thoughts and feelings, or in which he could draw upon the wealth of   
   > influences to which he had now become exposed. Initially his response   
   > was to turn away from song, particularly the finger-pointing genre that   
   > was coming to stereotype him. Throughout 1963, but with more intensity   
   > during the last two months, which partially coincides with his first   
   > meeting with Ginsberg in December of that year, and in early 1964, he   
   > increasingly expressed himself in free form verse and prose, rarely   
   > revising it, and some of which he published not only on the back of his   
   > own albums, such as the “Eleven Outlined Epitaphs” on the sleeve cover   
   > of The Times They Are A-Changin’, but also on albums by Joan Baez and   
   > Peter, Paul, and Mary. One of his tributes to poet Dave “Tony” Glover   
   > was printed in the program for the 1963 Newport Folk Festival.   
   > Much of the early work is loosely autobiographical, including his “Life   
   > in a Stolen Moment,” printed on the Town Hall concert program, and “Last   
   > Thoughts on Woody Guthrie,” which he recited as an encore to the concert   
   > and culminates in print in his 1966 book Tarantula. In the dust jacket   
   > notes by Michael Gray the book is described as “surrealism on speed, a   
   > phantasmagoric trip through America.” Scattered throughout are the more   
   > readable prose poems in the form of letters, as well as an epitaph, once   
   > again to Bob Dylan, starting with “Here lies bob dylan / murdered.”   
   >   
   > Dylan even experimented with writing plays at the end of 1963, as a   
   > letter from him to Broadside magazine testifies, and what appears to be   
   > a fragment of the utterly unmemorable play he refers to was   
   > discovered....   
   >   
   > ********************************************   
      
   Good find, Zod.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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