Bibliograph

Blackbird singing, poems and lyrics, 1965-1999, Paul McCartney ; edited by Adrian Mitchell

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Blackbird singing, poems and lyrics, 1965-1999, Paul McCartney ; edited by Adrian Mitchell

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Blackbird singing

Oclc number

45791387

Responsibility statement

Paul McCartney ; edited by Adrian Mitchell

Sub title

poems and lyrics, 1965-1999

Summary

To actually read Paul McCartney's poems, whether exuberant love ballads or poignant messages of deepest grief, is to revel in the sheer power of language and to appreciate the electrifying confluence of dream and song. Indeed, his words are as pure and magical as we remember them. Here, in his first collection of poems and lyrics, McCartney emerges with a dreamlike yet thoroughly mature voice that confirms his stature as one of the most original and best-loved poets of our time. Inspired by his late wife, Linda McCartney, Blackbird Singing gives us extraordinary access to the inner life of one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century culture. The poems here demonstrate, against an acknowledgment of the solitariness of existence, an irrepressible belief in the power of words and music "to take a sad song and make it better."--Publisher description

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