A few years back, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. This came as a surprise to many seeing how the award appears based on his song lyrics that “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” I, for one, gave pause and rubbed my chin. I have no issue with Dylan getting the award as some of my other author friends. His lyrics are poetical and speak to the human condition in pointed folkish terms. Raw emotion flows through them and exemplar