Void of Course (Poets, Penguin)
by Jim Carroll
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Author: Jim CarrollEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-01
ISBN: 0140589090
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: leaves me hoping for another book to come...
Summary: 4 Stars
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).
Summary of Void of Course (Poets, Penguin)
In 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his 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 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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