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Suzanne Vega is a poet of the urban streets whose passionate eye catches the motion and vibrant color of the life that surrounds us all. In this volume are her collected writings:  poems and stories; song lyrics and overheard conversations; remembrances of times past and faraway countries.

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The Passionate Writings of an Artist!
I loved the songs, Luka, and Tom's Diner, by Suzanne Vega but I didn't know there was so much more to her work. She is an artist of words whether through her lyrics or her poetry. She was raised in the urban New York City and you get the feeling about the city while you read her poetry and lyrics for the songs, Luka, and Tom's Diner as well as so many others like Book of Dreams. Suzanne Vega's Luka was about child abuse and Tom's Diner represented an urban experience of hers. I think the book does a fine service in explaining Vega's inspiration and creativity. This book is a must for Vega fans and for anybody interested in Vega's creativity and inspiration. I think this book can be used in schools.

slight alterations
Fans of Suzanne Vega will find lyrics to many of her songs in this collection, and will also enjoy reading some of her poetry and other writings. I found it particularly interesting to see how, with slight changes to the language, a theme from a poem or story got worked into a song that I knew well.

a must supplement for those who have Suzanne's music and those who consider buying it
Suzanne's art is unique and inspiring. It goes well beyond music. Those who followed her in the last 20 years or so witnessed a long and exciting journey. It was all but obvious for a book to accompany this journey. Suzanne is sharp, clear, fresh and touches every bit of your soul. The books brings you closer to her inner world and creates, together with her music, a wonderful and intimate world.

Yeah..
The best songwriter ever in terms of lyrics.Freakin totally in your face fantasticima,the "Spiritual Bathing" of poetry books.(A plug for that book by Ms.Nadine Epstein.) CrAss had some songs that were also on par with MS.Vega. "Reality Asylum"'s one of them.The best poetry peice ever.If you do not like punk with poetry by "Love Songs" the book with Crass lyrics and "Self Evident" Ani DiFranco's lyric book as well.For these three artists plus Sarah MacLachlan define how we are as women and men and humanity in all of it's beauty and angEr and Joy.

Wow
I really don't know how can I explain this book. It's not really a book it's something more than that, something you always want to carry with you no matter how many times you read it, you want to read again and again. Every poem, story or lyric gain new meanings each time you read. I've always been a big fan of Suzanne Vega's music and now I'm a big fan of her writing too! I wish she wrote more books! ... Read more

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Excellent book
It's really a shame this book has been out of print for over 10 years; it's an excellent selection of songs from Vega's first two albums, and contains very accurate acoustic guitar tablature.If you ever find it in a used bookstore somewhere, buy it!
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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Solitude Standing, Beauty & Crime, Days of Open Hand, 99.9f°, Nine Objects of Desire, Suzanne Vega, Songs in Red and Gray. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Solitude Standing is Suzanne Vega's platinum second album, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). It is the most popular and critically-acclaimed of her career. As can be seen by the CD insert, many of the songs had been written prior to 1987 (see track listing for dates). "Tom's Diner" is a two-part song, with vocal as track 1, and instrumental as track 11. *"Night Vision" was inspired by the poem "Juan Gris" by Paul Éluard. "Calypso" is based on The Odyssey, namely the part in which Calypso is forced to let Odysseus go. All songs written by Suzanne Vega in 198687 except as noted. Track listing note: On the original LP album release, side one was composed of tracks 1-5; side two, of tracks 6-11. Album Singles In addition, a 1990 version of "Tom's Diner" (DNA featuring Suzanne Vega) made #1 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, #2 in the UK and Ireland, #5 in the USA and #8 in New Zealand. ...http://booksllc.net/?id=2649625 ... Read more

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excellent but incomplete
Suzanne Vega is a singer/songwriter from New York.This book is subtitled 'Songs', as it primarily consists of all of the lyrics for Suzanne Vega's published songs up through her third album, 'Days of Open Hand'.There are also artsy photographs, and the book begins with an essay and ends with an interview.If this sounds like a book you would like to read, though, check out Suzanne's later and much more complete collection, 'The Passionate Eye'.

(Suzanne's lyrics are always worth reading, if you are not someone who can pick up all their details listening to her albums...if you haven't heard her songs, you should probably start with her CDs though, as her music is quite lovely as well.) ... Read more

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Chapters: Suzanne Vega, Pete Seeger, Baby Gramps, Victoria Williams, Christine Lavin, Peter Case, Tracy Chapman, Pierce Pettis, Ellis Paul, Tom Paxton, Odetta, Peter Yarrow, Lyle Lovett, Loreena Mckennitt, David Wilcox, Chris Smither, Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, the Roches, Suzy Bogguss, Tom Russell, Nanci Griffith, Michael Peter Smith, the Nields, Kirk Kelly, Greg Brown, Michelle Shocked, Eric Andersen, Fred Holstein, Oscar Brand, Christian Bauman, Andy Breckman, Ed Mccurdy, Steve Forbert, Cheryl Wheeler, Dan Bern, Jack Hardy, John Kruth, John Gorka, Richard Shindell, John Mccutcheon, Lucy Kaplansky, Catie Curtis, Hugh Blumenfeld, Hugh Moffatt, Rod Macdonald, Bob Franke, Rachael Sage, Bill Morrissey, Robin and Linda Williams, Chuck Brodsky, Bingo Gazingo, Stephen Wade, Lou and Peter Berryman, Gabriel Yacoub, Julie Gold, Lui Collins, Happy Traum, Vance Gilbert, David Massengill, Richard Meyer, Lynn Miles, Fred Small, Andrew Calhoun, Frank Christian, Tom Intondi, Geoff Bartley, Louise Taylor, Greg Greenway, Barbara Kessler, Jim Infantino, Michael Fracasso, Camille West, Roger Manning. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 353. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and for environmental causes. As a song writer, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=141833 ... Read more

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Chapters: Robert Redford, Cole Porter, Suzanne Vega, Carolyn Beug, Sean Penn, Sean Astin, Mark Evanier, Christopher Isherwood, Walter Pidgeon, Tobey Maguire, Bobby Shriver, Gillian Welch, Shirley Temple, Chris Mordetzky, Jason Hirsh, Mariska Hargitay, Kenneth Anger, Glenn Ford, Christina Ricci, Jean Simmons, Kevin Love, Randy Rhoads, Misty May-Treanor, Sam Querrey, Steven Blum, Teena Marie, Lynette Fromme, Stephen Moorer, Anjelica Huston, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Shelley Fabares, David Robertson, Brian Horwitz, Elonka Dunin, Chris Long, Dave Navarro, Stephen Malkmus, Scott Davis, Barbara Billingsley, David Hayter, Gloria Stuart, Faye Dancer, Amber Tamblyn, Lorenzo Lamas, Robert Trujillo, Ed Fallon, Gerald Heard, Helen K. Garber, Geraldine Chaplin, Pat O'hara, Sara Gilbert, Mike Carona, Miguel Ferrer, Lorna Luft, Dwight Evans, Frank Gifford, Dan Quisenberry, Adam Goldberg, Mark Loretta, Mickey Kaus, Barry Williams, Gunnar Nelson, Michel Colombier, Mike Scott, Donald Rice, Carole Caldwell Graebner, Richard Hatch, Cory Kennedy, Bob Gunton, Susan Olsen, Peter Zinner, Joseph Williams, Dominique Dunne, Beverly Baker Fleitz, Christopher Lawford, Peter Viertel, Bonnie Franklin, Zack Fleishman, Sylvia Levin, Jocelyn Brando, Michael Newberry, Kaleena Kiff, Bobbi Fiedler, Martin Starr, Bobby Sherman, Jeff Bollow, Andrea Savage, Trifun Zivanovic, Tracy Nelson, David Groh, Erin Sanders, Apollonia Kotero, Ronnie Knox, Eli Marienthal, List of People From Santa Monica, California, Dennis Smith, Shiva Rose, Lawrence Dale Bell, Markus Burger, Don Collier, Julia Brownley, C. R. Stecyk, Iii, Linda Gray, Grant Nordman, Blanche Ring, Wolfgang Van Halen, Jeff Madsen, Philippe Cousteau, Jr., Tiffany Stiegler, Kai Forbath, Amber Liu, Mara Corday, Philip R. Craig, Jean Darling, Mark Mancina, Tony Alva, Chris Offutt, Mona Simpson, Carson Daly, Ryan Hurst, Tony Horton, Coco Montoya, Paul Sand, Morgan "Bill" Evans, Richard Eyer, Evan Stafford, Mike Gaechter...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=897049 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music. Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA. Suzanne's mother, Pat Vega, is a computer systems analyst of German-Swedish heritage. Her father, Richard Peck, is of Scottish-English-Irish extraction. Her stepfather, Ed Vega, also known as Edgardo Vega Yunque, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 439 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Suzanne Vega: 'Luka' se hace mayor.(cantante)(Beauty and Crime, grabación de sonido)
Author: Érica Montenegro
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1152Page: 62(1)

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Chapters: Lawrence Lessig, Suzanne Vega, R. J. Rummel, Mark Warner, Warren Ellis, Cory Doctorow, Culture of Second Life, Anshe Chung, Adam Curry, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Thomas Barnett, Tony Moore, Howard Rheingold, Peter Ludlow, Tod Maffin, Philip Rosedale, Arbitrage Wise, the Scumfrog, Alyssa Laroche, Mark P. Mccahill, Cezary Ostrowski, Khannea Suntzu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government, his research claiming that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century's wars combined. He concludes that democracy is the form of government least likely to kill its citizens and that democracies do not wage war against each other. Rummel is the author of 24 scholarly books, and published his major results in Understanding Conflict and War (197581). He then spent the next fifteen years refining the underlying theory and testing it empirically on new data, against the empirical results of others, and on case studies. Power Kills (1997) sums up Rummel's research. Other works include Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocides and Mass Murders 1917-1987 (1990); China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (1991); Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder (1992); Death by Government (1994); and Statistics of Democide (1997). Extracts, figures, and tables from the books, including his sources and details regarding the calculations, are available online on his website. Rummel has also authored Understanding Factor Analys...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=356324 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Richard Stallman, Suzanne Vega, Björk, Carole King, Heather Nova, Nina Simone, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Laura Nyro, Nerina Pallot, Shania Twain, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Katie Melua, Alanis Morissette, Elvis Costello, Mark Knopfler, Amy Winehouse, Shakira, Tori Amos, James Blunt, Van Morrison, Gackt, Wolfgang Michels, Sheryl Crow, Stephen Stills, David Gilmour, Marina and the Diamonds, Jason Mraz, Michelle Shocked, John Martyn, K.d. lang, Jackie DeShannon, Eric Burdon, Patti Smith, Kirsty MacColl, Rufus Wainwright, Clueso, Alicia Keys, R. Kelly, Anis Hamadeh, Julia Nunes, T. V. Smith, Amy Macdonald, Jack Johnson, Taylor Swift, Ida Corr, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell, Sasha, Aura Dione, RuPaul, Frederic Sioen, Lenny Kravitz, Donovan, Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Ai Kawashima, Florence and the Machine, Devendra Banhart, Lee Hazlewood, Loreena McKennitt, Roxanne Seeman, Reinhold Bilgeri, Adam Green, Albert Hammond, Billy Squier, Lisa Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Eri Kawai, Jason Arnold, Coshiva, Jon Carin, Missy Higgins, Nat Wolff, KT Tunstall, Ingrid Michaelson, Tim Buckley, Kate Nash, Mason Jennings, India.Arie, Mort Shuman, Milow, James Taylor, William Fitzsimmons, Damien Rice, Dirk Busch, Jeff Buckley, Lonnie, PJ Harvey, Yael Naim, Liz Phair, Daniel Merriweather, Paolo Nutini, Mia Aegerter, Kotoko, Kenny Rankin, Ben Folds, Charlie Winston, Toni Childs, Mike Doughty, Tajna Tanovic, Tom Lehrer, Tim Eriksen, Alain Clark, Michael Sellin, Michael Wolff, Loudon Wainwright III, Edie Brickell, Doug Fieger, Leona Naess, Madita, Miranda Lee Richards, Marnie Stern, Jes Brieden, Melody Gardot, Elliott Smith, Earl Robinson, Kevin Devine, Judy Henske...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=61034 ... Read more

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Chapters: Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mead, Suzanne Vega, Twyla Tharp, Patricia Highsmith, Christy Carlson Romano, Laurie Anderson, Cynthia Nixon, Janet Burroway, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Judith Miller, Martha Stewart, Joan Rivers, List of Barnard College People, Eleanor Raskin, Wilma B. Liebman, Lauren Graham, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Joan Vollmer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chai Feldblum, June Jordan, Jamie Babbit, Ellen Willis, Francine Du Plessix Gray, Vanessa Daou, Anna Schwartz, Fatima Bhutto, Ntozake Shange, Naomi Schor, Erica Jong, Lee Remick, Monique Raphel High, Madeleine Cosman, Alice Duer Miller, Juliet Poyntz, Helene White, Vivian Sobchack, Lenore Marshall, Jacqueline Barton, Léonie Adams, Elsie Clews Parsons, Helen M. Berman, Edwidge Danticat, Aviva Cantor, Jane Wyatt, Virginia Gildersleeve, Helen Douglas, Mae Yih, Maxine Greene, Diana Muir, Anna Quindlen, Louise Post, Judith Kaye, Cora Dubois, Gabrielle Stanton, Constance H. Williams, Rebecca Goldstein, Freda Kirchwey, Elizabeth Janeway, Diana Chang, Grace Lee Boggs, Carol Dweck, Atoosa Rubenstein, Mary Gordon, Randall Forsberg, Charlotte Armstrong, Louise Rosenblatt, Joyce Johnson, Marisha Pessl, Helen Hoyt, Lionel Shriver, Erinn Smart, Mary Harriman Rumsey, Hortense Calisher, Lis Wiehl, Justine W. Polier, Alice Notley, Emma Bugbee, Sarah Thompson, Sabrina Tavernise, Paula Reimers, Judith Coplon, Wendy Mae Chambers, Nancy Gertner, Anna Diggs Taylor, Mona Charen, Kim Bobo, Sprague Grayden, Elspeth Rostow, Madeleine Grumet, Rebecca Alpert, Lily Koppel, Alexis Stewart, Anna Godbersen, Mary Bass, Christine Wang, Nonnie Moore, Peggy Mccay, Ann Brashares, Natalie Angier, Helen Perlstein Pollard, Jeanine Tesori, Karla Jay, Elise Cowen, Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, Caroline August Chandler, Noemie Benczer Koller, Donna Vivino, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, Gina Gionfriddo, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, Tory Dent, Maria Hinojosa, Tova Mirvis, Jean Zimmerman, Tama Janowitz, Ellen V. Futter, Jami Be...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21483634 ... Read more

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Myths and legends form the foundations for all cultures. The Greek and Roman myths were early tales created to explain the world and are now inextricably woven throughout music, art, film, theater, literature, politics and daily life. Thousands of years old, these myths continue to inspire and intrigue, and this audio keeps these stories vibrant with new recordings by an intriguing array of artists including Iggy Pop, George Clinton, Suzanne Vega and others. ... Read more