Jim Carroll

Movie Tie-In Edition

The Basketball Diaries

A final work by the late author of The Basketball Diaries follows the story of enigmatic New York artist Billy, who suffers an emotional breakdown after attending a Velázquez show and agonizingly searches for divine inspiration for his own work.

The Petting Zoo

Recounts the atmosphere of New York City in the early Seventies and records his experiences with many now-famous bohemians and his waivering battles against drug addiction

The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973

Forced Entries

Jim Entra Nel Campo Di Basket

For use in schools and libraries only. Written between the ages of 12 and 15, this diary tells the story of Jim Carroll, a kid growing up stealing, hustling, getting high, playing basketball, and trying to find something pure on the streets of New York.

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 Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’s Charm,” a vignette set in New York City’s Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic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

Fear of Dreaming

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Spiritual Passage in Arabia

Richard Brautigan

Lewis Warsh

Bill Berkson

Ted Berrigan

Robert Creeley

Michael Bond

Aram Saroyan

Tom Clark

Alice Notley

Anne Waldman

Joe Brainard

Bill Brown

Philip Whalen

Stephen Ratcliffe

Diane Di Prima

John Thorpe

David Meltzer

Lewis MacAdams

Phoebe MacAdams

Joel Weishaus

Arthur Okamura

Max Crosley

Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Duncan Mc Naughton

Jim Brodey

Ebbe Borregaard

Joanne Kyger

John Doss

Gailyn Saroyan

Keith Lampe

Lawrence Kearney

Charlie Vermont

Poetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BOLINAS WRITING in celebration of its 50th anniversary. This is a gathering of poets, writers and artists living on or around the mesa in Bolinas, California. Not so much a school of thought as a meeting of those who happened to be at this geographical location at this wobbly point in time, several divergent movements in American poetry (Black Mountain, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York School poets) came together with new Western and mystic elements at the unpaved crossroads of Bolinas. Featuring work by: Gordin Bladwin, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Michael Bond, Ebbe Borregaard, Joe Brainard, Richard Brautigan, Jim Brodey, Bill Brown, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Robert Creeley, Max Crosley, Diane Di Prima, John Doss, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Lawrence Kearney, Joanne Kyger, Keith Lampe, Lewis Macadams, Phoebe Macadams, Duncan MC Naughton, David Meltzer, Alice Notley, Arthur Okamura, Stephen Ratcliffe, Aram Saroyan, Gailyn Saroyan, John Thorpe, Charlie Vermont, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Joel Weishaus, and Philip Whalen.

An Anthology of Bolinas Writers

On the Mesa

Patti Smith

Follows the story of enigmatic New York artist Billy, who suffers an emotional breakdown after attending a Velâazquez show and agonizingly searches for divine inspiration for his own work.

A collection of prose poems grapples with themes such as love, survival, obsession, good and evil, paradise, and prison

The Book of Nods

Fear of Dreaming collects all of Carroll's poems from Living at the Movies and most of The Book of Nods. While some of the poems originally published in The Book of Nods are not included in Fear of Dreaming, one of the "New York City Variations" originally left out of The Book of Nods can be found in Fear of Dreaming; this piece was originally published in Paris Review in 1985. In addition, the final section of the book, "New Work 1989-1993,"offers fifteen new poems and prose works. Among these are the short story "Curtis'sCharm" (which first appeared in Paris Review in 1993 and was adapted to film in 1996 by Canadian director John L'Ecuyer), and the poems "Fear of Dreaming," "Praying Mantis," and "To the National Endowment for the Arts."

The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll

Poems deal with love, longing, friendship, memory, time, and life in the city

Poems 1994-1997

Void of Course

Simon Watts

John Nelson

John English

Rick White

Woodworker's Journal

Brad Becker

Mike McGlynn

Jim Jacobsen

John Kelliher

J. Petrovich

Nina Johnson

Marty Lubbers

Craig Lossing

Stephen Sheperd

David Larson

These 22 beautiful projects may be small in size, but they're big in design. Selected by the editors of Woodworker's Journal, these projects -- including a humidor and a craftsman mirror -- are sure to become instant heirlooms.

Over 20 Great Projects for the Home from Woodworking's Top Experts

Boxes, Clocks, Lamps, and Small Projects (Best of WWJ)

The sensational sequel to the bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was a young and rising star in the crazy and creative downtown scene in New York City. He worked at the Factory for Andy Warhol and discussed art, literature, and the cosmos with Robert Smithson, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan. He spent nights at Max’s Kansas City, listening to the Velvet Underground. And he did far too many drugs -- until his survival instinct impelled him to leave New York for a Northern California retreat. Intimate and revealing, the episodes in Forced Entries, Carroll’s diaries from that period, provide a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening glimpse of people who tested the limits of life and sanity. "Forced Entries captures the early-seventies period in New York better than anything I’ve read in a long time." -- William S. Burroughs

The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973

Rick Broadhead

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How to Become a Successful E-commerce Merchant

Selling Online

4 Ups and 1 Down

Livre culte de l'underground new-yorkais, le Journal de Jim Carroll, paru au début des années 70, est à la fois le portrait d'une ville impitoyable, vue par les yeux fascinés d'un jeune sauvage urbain, et un manuel de révolte adolescente. Le joueur de basket arpente les trottoirs de New York City, racole, vole à l'étalage, arnaque, refourgue, se défonce, s'envoie en l'air et tire au panier des balles impeccables dans la même langue insolente. A la recherche, peut-être, d'une pureté hors d'atteinte. Ce qui, sans doute, inspira à Jack Kerouac la réflexion suivante : " A treize ans, Jim Carroll écrit une prose plus intéressante que 98 % des romanciers contemporains. " Jim Carroll est devenu, depuis la période dont le renom n'a cessé de croître dans l'underground new-yorkais. Il a enregistré plusieurs disques, dont le célèbre " Catholic Boy ", au début des années 80.

Basketball diaries

The young poet sensitively records his thoughts on friendship, love, drugs, and poetry

Living at the Movies

Basketball Diaries Counter Display

Bryan Goluboff

A Screenplay

Jim Carroll

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