Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: "[. . .] Cupid's arrow had whistled past

my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard."

A dedicated civil rights activist, [Suze] Rotolo has been credited with opening [Bob] Dylan's eyes to the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera. The pair remained together for three years during which time he penned some of his greatest songs--Blowin' In The Wind, Masters Of War, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall among them.

from Mojo: Suze Rotolo, 1943-2011

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