Daybreak by Joan BaezMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Originally released in 1969, much of Baez's career still lay ahead when this came out. Still, this is a great read; part prose poetry, part dream journal, part hallucinatory childhood recollections. Even then she had a full life to look back on; a peripatetic one with her Quaker-physicist father, being a house parent at Perkins School for the Blind, and more. Her music career underway by the time of the book, she gets to name drop. She paints an obscure of Bob Dylan as "The Dada King" and recalls poignantly her departed brother-in-law Richard Fariña. Baez also recounts her close friendship and collaboration with Antiwar activist Ira Sandperl, mentions Badger King in an aside and also recalls Florence Beaumont's self-immolationas a Vietnam War protest.
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