Forever Words. Johnny Cash

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Название Forever Words
Автор произведения Johnny Cash
Жанр Зарубежные стихи
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isbn 9781782119951



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      Johnny Cash (1932-2003) was an American icon and country music superstar. Cash first sang publicly while in the air force in the early fifties. Married to country legend June Carter, he became the youngest person ever to be chosen for the Country Music Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, the Gospel Hall of Fame and is also a member of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Over the course of his career, he appeared in feature films, hosted his own television show, he won nineteen Grammy awards, four of them posthumously, and performed everywhere from the Folsom State Prison to the White House. John Carter Cash, having been involved in music all his life, is an accomplished and award-winning record producer. He is also a singer-songwriter and recording artist. He is the only son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. He is also the author of three children's books, a biography on his father, one on his mother's life and a fantasy novel, Lupus Rex. Paul Muldoon is the author of twelve collections of verse, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is Howard Clark Professor at Princeton University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

      edited and introduced by PAUL MULDOON

      foreword by JOHN CARTER CASH

      ‘If we want to know what it means to be mortal, we need look no further than the Man in Black’

       BOB DYLAN

       ‘The Man in Black was also an incredibly productive poet who was just as happy to let his pen do the talking . . . Love, mortality, addiction, humour, spirituality, pain, wonder, hope, heartbreak, freedom and resignation all weave in and out of Cash’s poetry – just as they did in his songs – in an attempt to paint the most accurate portrait of his true self’

       WILL HODGE, Rollingstone.com ‘In some ways the poems mirror Cash’s songwriting, with terse ballads of outsiders in love, and parables drawn from the Bible . . . yet another look at a legend of American music’ BEN SISARIO, The New York Times ‘In retrospect, we should have assumed that outlaw country musician Johnny Cash was leading a double life as a secret poet’ DENNIS DICLAUDIO, The A.V. Club

      Published in Great Britain in 2016 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,

      Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2016 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © 2016 by John R. Cash Revocable Trust

      Introduction © 2016 by Paul Muldoon

      Foreword copyright © 2016 by John Carter Cash

      Research and development Steve Berkowitz and John Carter Cash

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      This edition first published in the United States in 2016 by

      Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

      375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014

      Blue Rider Press is a registered trademark and its colophon is a trademark of

      Penguin Random House LLC

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 196 9

      eISBN 978 1 78211 995 1

       Book design by Lauren Kolm

       CONTENTS

       Foreword: Redemptions by John Carter Cash

       Introduction by Paul Muldoon

       Ballad of Johnny Capman

       Big-Hearted Girl

       Body on Body

       California Poem

       The Captain’s Daughter

       Chinky Pin Hill

       Crowley’s Ridge

       Dark and Bloody Ground

       Does Anybody Out There Love Me?

       The Dogs Are in the Woods

       Don’t Make a Movie About Me

       Don’t Take Your Gun to Town

       Forever

       Going, Going, Gone (version 2)

       Gold All Over the Ground

       Gold in Alaska

       He Bore It All for Me

       Hey, Baby, Wake Up

       I Have Been Around (version 2)

       I Heard on the News

       I Wish You a Merry Christmas

       If You Love Me

       I’ll Still Love You

       I’m Comin’, Honey

       Jellico Coal Man

       Job

       Let’s Put It to Music