A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated

This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's most influential artists.

“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated,

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the li

Poet, critic, and hybrid-genre artist Johnson tracks the use of trouble in word, concept, and practice in this debut of brief, elliptical, lyric essays. He move