How'm I Gonna See You Now

The Detroit (via Arizona) Dylan, who earned his Prince of Darkness title from being Miles to Jim Morrison's Bird, on his new Eyes of Alice Cooperreflects on his career achievement of midwifing "inauthentic American rock music." He'd been hung, electrocuted, guillotined, flushed, and mutilated by a zipper years before Ben Stiller, and he came back with the T-shirt he's wearing on the back cover, depicting himself on the end of a rope. These Eyesare both the infernal desiring machines of Love It to Death's inner-pic and the thousand-yard-starers of From the Inside's outer, retinal imprints, peeled off the tracks from under those wheels.

photo: Neil Zlozower

Decades later, lines still form on his face and his hands.

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