Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize Winner

ANOTHER GUEST POST FROM MY SON- THIS ONE IS NOW PUBLISHED ON-LINE IN THE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND WILL APPEAR IN THE PRINT COPY TOMORROW

Confession: I’m not smart enough to understand many of the parables and metaphors and references to other works woven throughout Bob Dylan’s lyrics. I am, nonetheless, awed by their beauty, their depth and their range.

 

And I am far from alone in my admiration: He also inspires countless creators to cover, expand upon, interpret and derive from his work, a trait that puts him not only squarely in the folk tradition, but also in the world of storytelling and oral history.

 

He is indisputably a uniquely gifted (song)writer, well deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature.