So Hard to Handle
John Lahr: In Praise of Joni Mitchell, 22 February 2018
Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
by David Yaffe.
Farrar, Straus, 420 pp., £20, October 2017,978 0 374 24813 0 Show More
by David Yaffe.
Farrar, Straus, 420 pp., £20, October 2017,
“... of the process of writing, she’s building a canvas as well as she is putting on the paint,’ James Taylor, another conquest, explained. ‘It’s never straight on.’ Mitchell’s lyrical indirection, the habit of thinking against conventional tropes, is an extension of what she calls her ‘perverse need for originality’, a manifestation of a ... ”