"If your love were taken from me..."

[libertango]

Suzanne Vega has a blog post up at the New York Times. It's titled, "Surviving the Hits," and talks most about "Luka," with "Tom's Diner" held in reserve for later.

Here's the comment I just submitted (moderated, so it may never see the light of day save here):

*^*^*

Those may be your "hits," but I've always liked your body of work overall.

The sheer playful chutzpah of opening a debut album with the lines:

"It's a one time thing
It just happens a lot
Walk with me
And we will see what we have got..."

Or the image, thrown upon the page (what Pound terms “phanopoeia” (a “casting. of images upon the visual imagination”))...

"All dressed in lace like the foam from the sea..."

That still haunts me. As a photographer, I've thought about getting the right model and the right beach and trying to create it.

Or, more recently, "Caramel," or "World Before Columbus."

Truly... More people should know of the scope of your work.

Comments

[karawynn.livejournal.com]

thanks for the pointer. sv is my single most favorite songwriter ever, and for a lot more than just 'luka'.

sv

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

I think I remembered that.

Certainly I remember noting to you how "Karawynn" scans one-for-one as a replacement for "Caramel."