New Releases by Bob Dylan

An extraodinary collection of drawings and sketches-of women, hotel rooms, cityscapes, and more-by the world''s best-known singer-songwriter, each accompanied by a note or short poem.

The complete collection includes all of Dylan''s writings and drawings plus 120 new writings. Index of song titles.

Bob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author''s Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative examples 24 performances of 11 songs by Bob Dylan. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index.