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Johnny Cash's Handwritten Poems to Be Published in Forever Words

Originally Published: November 10, 2016

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In uplifting news: "Blue Rider Press will publish Forever Words: The Unknown Poems of Johnny Cash," reports the Paris Review Daily. The book, which collects all unpublished poems by the legendary musician, is edited and introduced by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, and illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash’s own handwritten pages. The Daily excerpts from the book with the poem "Don't Make a Movie About Me."

"If anybody made a movie out of my life 
/ I wouldn’t like it, but I’d watch it twice." Read the full poem here. 
And to learn more about Cash's new book from Paul Muldoon, head here.