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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN num: 9780140589092
ISBN number: 0140589090
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 96
Printing Date: October 01, 1998
Publishing house: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sale Popularity Level: 597088
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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In 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his very first collection, Living at the Movies, a book of vivid and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Arthur Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara.
Carroll's very first new book of poetry in more than a decade, Void of Course presents work composed over the last two years. His major themes--love, friendship, desire, time and memory, and, above all, the ever-present city--emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. These seventy-seven poems range from graphic, sensuous shorter pieces to edgy stream-of-consciousness prose poems to longer, more contemplative works such as 'While She's Gone,' an eerie tour de force of longing over a departed lover. Void of Course establishes that Carroll's power and purity of vision are stronger than ever.
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A great book of poems from one of the only still living great poets. After having carried this book with me for years now, it still leaves me hoping for another future book of poems from Carroll.
Many of the poems in this book truly accomplish what I believe writer William S. Burroughs tried so hard to do, and that is to inspire in the reader a fever dream of the surreal that peirces through to the core of the reader and makes one really stop to think.
Oddly enough, Carroll even has a poem in this book called "What Burroughs Told Me."
The only reason this gets 4 star rather than 5 from me is because of my personal apathetic attitude towards anything having to do with Kurt Cobain (whom I never liked and always thought was way overrated).
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jim carroll possesses a poetic of the wounded and lost which seems unrivalled to me yesterday by any other modern poet. it's not, as some critics claim, that kids read his work because "he's the kid from the basketball diaries", or "he's done a lot of drugs".
the attraction of people, whatever age or place in life, to carroll's poems and music seems a sign of enlightenment to me: a man writes about the underbelly of society, which he spent most of his life exploring (and eventually becoming trapped within), and comes out at great cost to himself, with pearls. Carroll's "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain" is a really moving piece, and if you have any knowledge of the subject you will feel something shift inside you while reading it, and a deep disappointment that it ends at all. ("The lyrics were strange/"Chalk Skin Bending"/"Incognito Libido"/But copying them down I realized/That they only fit into the barrel of a gun.")
Perhaps that should be the final word on Cobain's death.
The last poem is also touching: Carroll talks of love betrayed and acknowledges his inevitable aloneness.
Read it.
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This is sensational. I saw him do some stuff from this in New York a little while ago and went and bought this the subsequent day from the lady with the stand at the corner of St.Mark's and Astor Pl.
The words here are just gold. For some reason it reminded me of Leonard Cohen's stuff, it has that air of 'it's always been there, I just said it best' about it.
'Jukebox' is a highlight, as are most of the pieces headed simply 'poem'...
Oh, just get it, it's not that expensive, and it's really worth it.
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Jim Carroll is the last poet hero. VC is gritty & unrelenting in its pursuit of redemption. i make it a habit to highlight illuminating verses, i found myself highlighting most of this book.
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If anyone can tell me the name of a modern poet who rhymes without sounding contrived can they please email me. I'll be eternally grateful.
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