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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN num: 9780140586954
ISBN number: 0140586954
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: November 01, 1993
Publishing house: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sale Popularity Level: 607551
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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I became a fan of Jim Carroll's work after hearing his poetry in the movie "Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo Dicaprio.
As a result, I found Carroll's poetry to be entertaining, to flow with grace, and to be rich in the use of imagery.
But after I read this book, I was a bit disappointed. Although, it was well written, it just was not that entertaining. I found the writing to be, somewhat, dry.
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Fear of Dreaming is the most interesting book of poetry I have ever owned. It is what inspired me to become a poet. I would recommend it to anyone... even if they didn't like poetry. This book just might change their mind.
Carroll's writing and imagery are as original as it gets.
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Jim Caroll's poems are very detailed, a painter spending hours painting the same piece of art to give it that sense of amazement. This book has some very deep pieces of poetry from Carroll's amazing imgaination and writing ability. The stories of heroin hell, nighttime in New York, and rock and roll. You don't go wrong with this collection.
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Jim Carroll's poetry has appeared sporadically over the years in small, relatively difficult-to-locate collections ("Living At the Movies", "The Book of Nods"), so I was relieved to find this on the shelf. His work is an odd kind of majesty, a masterful coagulation of the early decadents, the modernists, the beats, stellar figures like Rimbaud and Baudelaire, yet with a voice all his own. He gracefully charts the map from humorous to solemn, sacred to profane, personal to universal without skipping a beat. He is a magician of images, and in the tradition of his predecessors weds seamlessly the most disconnected visions: "The ambulance passes/we sit up/pinned eyes of nuns that genuflect between stars/ambassadors on marble staircases in steam tropics..."Midnight" pg. 80). After having read "The Basketball Diaries" I feared that Carroll's poetry would be bitching and whining over his checkered and painful past, but nothing could be further from the truth. He seems to take the attitude of a grateful warrior to his time spent shooting dope, losing the friends he pays homage to without self pity: ("Some detectives in worn suits slide at my door/They told me Eddie was dead on Lexington and 103/stabbed in the jugular at mid-day/outside two automated hospital doors/He often walked East Harlem after dark, high on reds, calling out the grey man/And I salute you, my brother. "New York City Variations" pg. 183).
Most of Carroll's poetry, though, is the product of his own imagination and only refers to his youth when necessary. He is obviously aware, though, of the parallels drawn between his and the chaotic life of Arthur Rimbaud with his enchanting prose pieces like "Rimbaud Goes To the Dentist". For all that he is not capitalizing on the sucess of "Basketball": you know just from reading the very first few ("The Blue Pill", "The Distances") poems that Carroll would have become famous just by virtue of his talent and not his sordid autobiography.
This is a must for those who love raw, genuine poetry.
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this book is incredible. "to the secret poets of kansas" is by far one of the most wonderful poemsi have ever read. i encourage anyone who is looking for poetry to read and savor these poems, they are certainly worth it.
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