by Rosanne Cash
First published 2018
Rosanne Cash joins forces with visual artist Dan Rizzie to create a unique collaboration. Cash draws from her songwriting catalog, pulling lyrics from albums spanning decades of her career. She includes material from her 2018 release She Remembers Everything alongside earlier works. Rizzie contributes paintings, collages, and drawings that echo the emotional landscape of Cash's words. The book presents fifty pairings that move between joy and sorrow, celebrating renewal while acknowledging loss. Lines from "God Is in the Roses" explore grief and solitude, while verses from "Fire of the Newly Alive" capture passion and rebirth. Rizzie's geometric patterns and nature imagery, particularly his bird motifs, create visual conversations with Cash's lyrics. Together they build a mosaic that reflects on life's contradictions and mysteries.
Genres: art, literary-fiction, contemporary, biography-memoir, music, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, lyrical
Tropes: found-family, grief
Period: 2018
116 pages · Hardcover · University of Texas Press