Imagine going through life thinking you are the unacknowledged bastard offspring of Bob Dylan. He first clued us into this thinking in his essay, “The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son,” published in Harper’s Magazine in May 2021. Yet despite his devotion to his mother, Evan had a complicated upbringing. For years people – teachers, step-fathers, total strangers – had volunteered that Evan bore a remarkable resemblance to Bob Dylan. When I look at words disordered on the page, I am never sure how being Bob Dylan’s child would help me come closer to beauty or truth.