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OverviewCarroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll initially made his reputation as a poet, and has won acclaim and comparisons to everyone from Rimbaud to Frank O’Hara for his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery. This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll’s Living at the Movies, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book of Nods, released in 1986. Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’s Charm,” a vignette set in New York City’s Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic tributes to Robert Mapplethorpe and Ted Berrigan. “His poems’ urgent, obsessive metaphors pose tensely against their cool, streetwise surface voice, charging them with an electricity that’s at once disturbing, sexual, religious, and psychological.”—Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jim CarrollPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: Penguin USA Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780140586954ISBN 10: 0140586954 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 November 1993 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Fear of DreamingLiving at the Movies Blue Poles The Distances The Narrows August Traffic Styro Morning Next Door The Green Bus The Loft In the Valley The Burning of Bustin's Island Love Rockets The Other Garden Heroin Poem Birthday Poem Seltzer Living at the Movies Your Daughter Fragment: Little N.Y. Ode Cough Syrup One Flight Up How Relaxed For Ezra Pound The Blue Pill Blood Bridge Poem on My Son's Birthday Crossed Wires Leaving N.Y.C. A Fragment Vacation A Short Reminder Gliding To a Poetess The Cosmopolitian Sense Growing Up Poem Cold Faces To the Secret Poets of Kansas Jet Fizzle Sea Battle An Early Morning Crucifixion Invisible Sleep Sure . . . Fear and Trembling After St. John of the Cross Little Ode on St. Anne's Day Chop Chop Silver Mirrors Highway Report Dog Crunch Love Poem (Later) California Poem Withdrawal Letter Maybe I'm Amazed Mercury Clouds New Year 1970 Midnight Prell Back Home For Sue's Birthday Song Poem Love Story In This Room Particularly The Tenth Try Love Poem For Your Birthday Poem On the Rush Words from Babylon Torn Canvas The Birth and Death of the Sun It Doesn't Matter Chelsea May Savage Bubbles Paregoric Babies An Apple at Dawn The Book of Nods Trained Monkey With van Gogh A Poet Dies Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins Watching the Schoolyard Guitar Voodoo My Father's Vacation Quality Post Office The Ice Capades ""The Academy of the Future Is Opening Its Doors . . ."" Parting the Reeds The Lakes of Sligo Lenses A Beach Landing Zeno's Final Paradox Paraguay The Safe Corridor Rimbaud Scenes: Rimbaud's Tooth Ache Rimbaud Sees the Dentist Waking in a Painter's Loft in Paris Rimbaud Running Guns Rimbaud Pays Homage to Saint Helena Confederate Lake One Hundred Years of Boredom Silent Money Scouting Five Irresponsible Students of Zen The Buddha Reveals Himself Me, Myself, and I Teeth Marks Reaching France In the Law Library In the Capital Stepping Out of M.O.M.A. Days The Transient Just Visiting New York City Variations Poems 1973-1985 Poem Winter's Age For Elizabeth Prologue M. Verdoux, The Wife Killer A Night Outing Wing and Claw The Ad Man's Daughter Saint Theresa In Four Seasons Dead Salamander's Song Painting by Flashlight Heroes Nightclubbing Post-Modernism The Caves Judging the Pageant El Hombre del Ombre A Window in Cherry Valley On Tour Dueling the Monkey A Child Growing Up with the Sun For John Donne Eugene, Oregon Our Desires My Debt On Susan's Birthday Poem Dresden to Chesapeake Bay In the Deep Green Vase Poem The New Death The Runners 3 Short Poems: Poem Compassion Cinco de Mayo Things That Fly For Robert Smithson Borges Death Mask The Desert Casino Music Television Sleeplessness In the Gears New York 1989-1993 Curtis's Charm A Perfect Stranger I Am Not Kurt Schwitters Calm Under Fire Fear of Dreaming Poem Epiphany Inauguration Day In Time, AIDS Song Evening News Praying Mantis Micky To the National Endowment for the Arts Coda About the Author"ReviewsAuthor InformationJim Carroll’s bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries was first released in 1978 and adapted as a film in 1995. Carroll’s work includes several collections of poetry as well as a asecond memoir, Forces Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973. As the leader of The Jim Carroll Band he released three albums as well as several spoken word recordings. He died in New York City on September 11, 2009. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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