Vega, Suzanne
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The Passionate Eye:: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0380788829
Release Date: 2001-05-08 |
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Suzanne Vega is a poet of the urban streets whose passionate eye catches the motion and vibrant color of the life that surrounds us all. In this volume are her collected writings: poems and stories; song lyrics and overheard conversations; remembrances of times past and faraway countries.
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Yeah.........2007-03-12
The best songwriter ever in terms of lyrics.Freakin totally in your face fantasticima,the "Spiritual Bathing" of poetry books.(A plug for that book by Ms.Nadine Epstein.) CrAss had some songs that were also on par with MS.Vega. "Reality Asylum"'s one of them.The best poetry peice ever.If you do not like punk with poetry by "Love Songs" the book with Crass lyrics and "Self Evident" Ani DiFranco's lyric book as well.For these three artists plus Sarah MacLachlan define how we are as women and men and humanity in all of it's beauty and angEr and Joy.
Wow.......2002-05-26
I really don't know how can I explain this book. It's not really a book it's something more than that, something you always want to carry with you no matter how many times you read it, you want to read again and again. Every poem, story or lyric gain new meanings each time you read. I've always been a big fan of Suzanne Vega's music and now I'm a big fan of her writing too! I wish she wrote more books!
Suzanne Vega Fans will love this!.......2001-12-15
Wonderful collection , written superbly!
The impersonal nature of personal revelation.......2001-10-31
Suzanne Vega's Passionate Eye effectively points up some of her ideas in a fresh, readable and consistently interesting format. She uses her song lyrics, poems and prose both recent and juvenile, and a centerpiece radio interview of Ms. Vega by Leonard Cohen (the most "human" part of the book, as Mr. Cohen alternates between simple friendliness, quick wit, deep insight and good, old-fashioned flirtatious play to "illustrate" Ms. Vega's contradictions and the themes of her music through a spirited dialogue).
As in her songs, Ms. Vega writes in veiled themes. She tries to illustrate that one can own the artist's revelations without owning (or needing to know) anything about the artist herself. She quotes passages to support her idea that her particular muse stems from childhood experience, and that she is merely saying the same things she thought at nine. She repeatedly makes the point that it is the elusive (and by inference, the allusive) that appeals to her. As Ms. Vega points out, the communication medium of a songwriter includes in large measure the lyrics of her songs. Yet this is not a mere fanzine piece, but instead a well-done arrangement which highlights her ideas without descending into morose autobio. Although her spare, dark sense of humor peeks through the covers a time or two here, the book perhaps suffers from yet another Vega trait--her consistent effort to maintain a sort of "high seriousness" about her proceedings. I would have liked, perhaps, to see the lyrics of Christine Lavin's Vega parody "Mysterious Woman" arrayed beside Ms. Vega's own lyrics. Ms. Vega shows the reader that she understands the limitations in the persona she created, but we do not quite see what persona she wishes we had seen instead.
Still, I left this book convinced that Suzanne Vega remains a complex and interesting artist, wishing for fame, but disliking the toll it can take on the part of the artist which is not the public persona. Thank goodness this is not a morose "pity me, I'm famous" piece, but a set of images and wordplay, well worked out. Read this, even if you are not a "Suzanne Vega fan".
I left this book feeling that I understood a thing or two about the public person Suzanne Vega seeks to portray, and that I need not know anything more about Suzanne Vega herself. I believe this is what Ms. Vega wants the reader to feel, and therefore she has succeeded admirably.
A little heavy-handed, little structure, but interesting!.......2000-10-18
The interview with Leonard Cohen alone is by far worth every penny I chose to spend on this book. I love Leonard Cohen... to see these two artists interacting and conflicting in a dialogue on a printed page was FANTASTIC. The rest of the book is a little harder to warm up to... although die-hard fans will cherish every window into Suzanne's head and heart.
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Dreams of the World: Stories of the Greek and Roman Gods
Iggy Pop , Suzanne Vega , and George Clinton
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Suzanne Vega: Bullet in Flight
Suzanne Vega
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ASIN: 071192225X |
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99.9F By Suzanne Vega Songbook (Piano/Vocal)
Suzanne Vega
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ASIN: B000ODHDF8 |
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Suzanne Vega: Days of Open Hand
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: Cherry Lane Music
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ASIN: B000LN7JG4 |
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99.9 F
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: A&M Records
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ASIN: B000KX5UHK |
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Retrospective:Deluxe Sound & Vision
Suzanne Cdmsim 316915 Vega
Manufacturer: MSI MUSIC
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: A & M Records
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ASIN: B000KZ7GWK |
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- Villon, François
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