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Summary: Classic Jim Carroll
Review: "My voice has a quiver. That's where you store the arrows before you shoot."- This is another great book of poems from Jim Carroll. With poems like "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain", "While She's Gone", & "Message Left on a Phone Machine" this book is a must have!
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Summary: Colors
Review: For me every poem has a different color. This book is a rainbow. Highlights: My Ruins, While she's gone and the poem on page 54. And that is just for this moment because, as live, the meaning of the poems change. When you read Valentine and you know it's origin, you will think the same as me: give Jim Carroll a groserie list and he will turn it into a poem. He has the ability to see poetry in every aspect of live.
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Summary: Ohmigoddess, Jim Carroll rocks!
Review: I think this book shows a growing, a progress, in both Jim Carroll's depth and his vision...he's no longer the 15-year-old street kid he was in The Basketball Diaries, and this book proves it. He still may not be completely at peace w/his past, but he has gone on, at least to a point. The ever-beatiful "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain" strummed a string in my heart-he went through addition and all and survivied, but K.Cobain didn't. Also, the last poem, "My Ruins" on Pools of Mercury, is amazing...it sums it up!!! "While She's Gone", the longest poem in the book, tells powerfully the pains and anxieties of a parted lover, but the shorter poems are jewels on equal terms. He's taken a turn from TBD, and it's incredible!!! Get the book, read it, love it, and you'll be rewarded w/infinite wisdom!!!
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Summary: a true poet, for all his wounds
Review: jim carroll possesses a poetic of the wounded and lost which seems unrivalled to me today 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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Summary: a true poet, for all his wounds
Review: jim carroll possesses a poetic of the wounded and lost which seems unrivalled to me today 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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Summary: Thought Felony Drainage.
Review: This is sensational. I saw him do some stuff from this in New York a little while ago and went and bought this the next 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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Summary: His Finest Book Yet!
Review: Void of Course:Poems 1994-1997 is one of Jim Carroll's best book. The words are absolutely brilliant and are filled with so much passion. This book is pure genius. My favorite poem is....well I don't think I can name one their all so good and very well written! Please tell all your friends to buy this book and all of Jim's other books!! I promise you wont be disapointed. Amanda,16
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