Fear of Dreaming by Jim Carroll

Fear of Dreaming by Jim Carroll

Carroll, 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 Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including "Curtis's Charm," a vignette set in New York City's Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic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

The Basketball Diaries, a bestselling memoir by Jim Carroll, was initially published in 1978 and made into a film in 1995. Carroll's work includes a second book, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973, as well as various collections of poetry. He made three albums and several spoken word recordings as the head of The Jim Carroll Band. On September 11, 2009, he died in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780140586954
ISBN 10	0140586954
Title	Fear of Dreaming
Author	Jim Carroll
Series	Penguin Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1993-11-01
Number of pages	288
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