Summary
Nick Cave: King Ink
Nick Cave has every right to be considered a poet. Although his verses take on their full artistic meaning only when set to music, Cave's poems, stripped of blackness on white paper, reveal the highly cultivated versification power of indigenous and well-rounded poetics. Here, the first collection King Ink is of key importance, which, along with short prose and dramatic passages, provides an overview of lyrics from the author's first ten albums...
Skillfully and sincerely combining the ruthlessness of certain Old Testament motifs with the brutality of the modern half-world, Cave writes impressive and painful lyrical narratives about the paradoxical stretches of eros and thanatos. The symbol of dark rock deserved the longed-for poetic obol...
(from Denis Peričić's foreword)
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