| Void of Course Contributor(s): Carroll, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140589090 ISBN-13: 9780140589092 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1998 Annotation: From the bestselling author of "The Basketball Diaries", "Void of Course" is a collection of poetry that vibrates with the details of everyday city life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 98003495 |
| Series: Penguin Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.52" W x 8.44" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |