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Wall Street Journal -- "What to Read: 10 Best Books of February"
Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, "If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?"
Brief description: Robert Polito served as president of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015. The founding director of the Graduate Writing and Writing and Democracy Programs at the New School, Polito teaches writing and literature. For his book Savage Art, he was awarded the NBCC Award in Biography.
Review Quotes: Precious little prose has been spent analyzing the second giant peak of Dylan's creative output, his material from the early 1990s onward. Robert Polito, a celebrated poet and author of a prizewinning biography of pulp author Jim Thompson, is up to the task, dedicating this deep dive solely to the past three decades of Dylan's corpus . . . drawing from thousands of pages from Dylan's archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, weaving analysis and biography in order to correct the narrative that the great songwriter's best days are long behind him.--Mitch Kaplan "Boca Magazine"