“And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers…”

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Desolation Row

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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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