Third Rail
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"The thread or the themeThat holds this tuneTogether is the sameOne that rips it open...."-- from Gimme Shelter by Bill Knott
"Chunky on the shag rug, I'm looking for my anthem, I'm looking for my headphones, I'm looking for the bare spot on the rug to wallow, side-stepped on the chair-stopped door. I blast my ears out."-- from The Prophet's Song by Daniel Nester
"Drums,Whatta lotta Noise you want a Revolution?Wanna Apocalypse? Blow up in Dynamite Sound?"-- from Punk Rock You're My Big Crybaby by Allen Ginsberg
As revolutionary as the music it celebrates, the poetry in this electrifyinganthology -- by poets such as Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon and Philip Larkin -- turns rock upside down with indelible images and powerful expressions of the music that changed our lives.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Busking,
- Guns N' Roses,
- An Elegy for Bob Marley,
- The Musician Talks About Process,
- Interlude: Still Still,
- Decrescendo,
- Cheers,
- Truncated Elegy,
- Kissing and Telling,
- Listening to Jefferson Airplane,
- The Hallelujah Jam,
- The Reef,
- The Wailers in Estadio Nacional,
- At the Fillmore,
- Days of 1968,
- Dream Job,
- Alas, They Sighed, You Were Not Like Us,
- If Poetry Were Not Morality,
- Portrait of a Lady,
- A Repertoire,
- A Genesis Text for Larry Levis, Who Died Alone,
- Sun-Saddled, Coke-Copping, Bad-Boozing Blues,
- Golden Oldie,
- Endless Sleep,
- Household Gods,
- Phantom,
- Love Potion No. 9,
- Parkersburg,
- Elvis's Twin Sister,
- Elvis Presley,
- The Wine Talks,
- The Sun Sessions,
- Shore Leave,
- Cher,
- Chiffon,
- Annus Mirabilis,
- The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987,
- Yeah Yeah Yeah,
- From Me to You,
- Bed Music,
- Rock Music,
- North(west)ern,
- Some Crazy Dancing,
- Disco Elegy,
- I Like the Music That Shakes,
- Delivering Eggs to the Girls' Dorm,
- An Englishman Abroad,
- Hanoi Hannah,
- Ooly Poop a Cow,
- Sleep, After Ray Charles Show And Hurricane Report,
- Sleeve Notes,
- The Burning of the Midnight Lamp,
- Electric Church,
- All Along the Watchtower,
- Between Takes,
- Watching Young Couples with an Old Girlfriend on Sunday Morning,
- Montage: MTV,
- The Victim,
- Punk Rock You're My Big Crybaby,
- Rock Music,
- "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding,"
- Manhattan Diptych,
- Lucifer In Starlight,
- C Train Home: Lou Reed After the Wake of Delmore Schwartz, July 1966,
- 7-Minute Song,
- The Prophet's Song,
- The Prophecy,
- Bohemian Rhapsody,
- Vince Neil Meets Josh in a Chinese Restaurant in Malibu (After Exra Pound),
- Variation on a Theme by Whitesnake,
- The Secret History of Rock & Roll,
- Mostly Mick Jagger,
- Necromancy: The Last Days of Brian Jones, 1968,
- Gimme Shelter,
- The Penalty for Bigamy Is Two Wives,
- You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball And Chain,
- Pearl,
- Berkeley 1971,
- Blue Lonely Dreams,
- Comebacks,
- Birthday,
- Poet Biographies
- Credits
