Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

Like EE Cummings before her, Björk's rebellion and experimentation lies atop a rapturous response to the natural worldThe first time I read an EE Cummings poem, it was like a firecracker going off in my head. I was 16 years old, crouching between the library shelves of my sixth-form college, and it hit me not like a poem at all, but like music, like a song on the radio I wanted to dance to.And when I tried to explain to myself the thrill of his work, I could only think of it in terms of rock...

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