Rec me some poets based on an admiration for bob dylan

I just discovered the silver jews

thanks

Alright let me hijack the thread here for a second.
If you enjoy Silver Jews, make sure to check out Will Oldham, he's an on/off-member of the Jews but has a very respectable solo output, usually using the moniker Palace Brothers or Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
youtu.be/0FRhH7CDSYQ

Also, if you're into hip hop, check out some the Anticon collective put out:
youtu.be/cXmCIlGstfY
youtu.be/FlhncpCYLWg
youtu.be/-TIrhKKrnAU

These guys are all damn good lyricists. Have a good day.

„We inaugurate the evening.
Just drumming up a little weirdness.
It gets late so early now,
The waves come in in mountain phases
Linked in possibilities,
Branching possibilities.
I’d see fire where it’s not supposed to be.
In the empty library at suppertime.
By the respirating basement door.
The dog eats out of an old tambourine on the floor.
I’ve been told you can live a long, long time on the love of a dog.
And that things get bitter and bad,
And that people are wrong.
And sleep can be had
For the price of a song.
Late in the day, when the options are gone.
When the seatbelt’s the only hug you’ve felt in weeks.
When wrong numbers are the totality of your social life.
The obscure strategies of wildlife
Only flummox the hell out of a kid.
I first saw her in a mega-store,
The day-glow raven, born into a free fall,
Like plastic Easter basket grass,
Fallen from an overpass.
The fulfillment of a 10th grade prophecy.
The motel masterpiece.
Blind to the branching possibilities,
Blind to lint in possibilities,
Teardrops were standing in my eyes
Like beer, before they bolt.
It was like I was stretching my arms through the cat-door to heaven.
I was thinking, I could lick the frosting off these summer days
If the nights were half as sweet.
Me, like a banged-up dog, walking half-sideways…
I adored the way she modified my mornings.
When I’d wake up in the calm shoals of her bed,
Somersaults and smoke, and the universe of sleep
Before she slipped into her heritage and disappeared.
Now every second thought is of control.
I guess in a way I long to be rad.
When I was with her it felt wrong to be sad.
Did I tell you an angel finally came and shut my mouth?
There was a smile and a tear in her voice too.
And she taught me to relight,
Relight, and relight again.
You tell me you can live a long, long time on the love of a dog.
Things get bitter and bad,
And sleep can be had,
Late in the day when the options seem gone.
Please let your eyes be a friend to me again.
It’s just malfunctioning teardrops.
A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart.“

Emmett Grogan's Ringolevio. Picaresque biography (those don't happen often) and Dylan dedicated his Street Legal album to him.

lol, fuck, you wanted poetry. disregard, i suck cocks etc it's a very good book though

very kind of you but i'm not too much into rap, i'm french and in my country their lyrics is basically sex and violence mixed in with weird extremism like islamist rhetoric and anti israel garbage, even insulting frenchmen for colonialism, so that has really put me off of it for good. it really seems to me like a thug's culture, and that doesn't appeal to me

the first song was good though, thanks a lot

I understand, I'm German and the current hip hop scene here is pretty embarrassing as well. But generally speaking, there are some gems.
Glad you enjoyed Oldham though.

I know that we're going more into musicians than poets here but I'd like to give you a similar rec, Jason Molina.
youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A9Y

Big emphasis on the lyrics here

Thanks for this, I had no idea Berman collaborated with The Avalanches. I looked it up and it's on their new album too

They did! It's used on the last track off Wildflower, generally a bit of a disappointing album, but Saturday Night Inside Out does stand out!
It's an excerpt of the poem posted above, but it works wonderfully. Berman is a seriously gifted lyricist and poet. I really recommend "Actual Air".

pic related was a big influence on A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall and he gets a namecheck in You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Brecht's Pirate Jenny's Song from The Threepenny Opera was an influence on When the Ship Comes In

Thanks I'll look into it. I'm still going through the Silver Jews' stuff so I haven't got the chance to look up his poetry yet. I only listened to American Water for the longest time so I was surprised by how strong the other albums are actually, especially The Natural Bridge.

Adam was not the first man
Though the bible tells us so
There was one created before him
Whose name we do not know

He also lived in the garden
But he had no mouth or eyes
One day Adam came to kill him
And he died beneath these skies