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Tears For Water: Songbook of Poems & Lyrics
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March 1, 2005
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Tears For Water: Songbook of Poems & Lyrics by Alicia Keys, G.P Putnam's Sons, December 2004, $19.95, ISBN 0-399-15257-1
This work is a curious amalgamation of what the singer-songwriter reveals in her introduction as her most "delicate" and "secret" thoughts, followed by her most famous ones-her song lyrics. In this sense, the book immediately becomes an oxymoron: how different are her lyrics from her poems? How much of the real Keys is pressed into these pages? How private is this poetry we were never meant to see?
Unsurprisingly, the poems are rather songlike. In fact, if it weren't for the distinct section breaks, it would be nearly impossible to distinguish Keys's songs from her ...
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