Re: [JimCarroll] Digest for jimcarroll@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 1 topic

[Jen K]

Cassie wrote:

"Everyone here needs to respond to this! This is why we’re here!"

Jim appeals to people for various reasons. I grew up in Texas and had never heard of him until I met some people online who were fans of Patti Smith. That led to Jim. I bought and read some of his books, including the posthumous novel. I love the uniqueness of his voice, both the way he talks and what he says. He's just a fascinating human being. I am intentionally speaking of him in present tense because to hear or read him is to experience him in the moment. So, he's here with us in that sense.

Jen

[jeremy roberts]

Thanks again for sharing - yes, me - I discovered Jim in 1981/82 - and got his books and music and then kept buying as things came out. He created a unique world. I am a poet, too, and I went as Jim to a Dead Poets night in 2012 - see picture attached (wig included!)

Jim's poems are a mixture of narrative and abstract elements - he is an imagist unlike any other poet I've read, really. You make his work out to mean whatever you want. His prose works are something else entirely - as Jack Kerouac once said ..... ;) I love The Petting Zoo and think that Pools of Mercury is a sensational album of words and music. People always say he only made three albums of Rock music - wrong, he made four. Anyway ... more another time!

Jeremy

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[Sandra Ludwig]

Love the Dead Poets outfit!  

I learned about Jim when Catholic Boy was released.  I was a Patti smith fan and a friend said I should check out Jim's work. Several years later I lost track of him. I never knew about  Void of Course and Pools of Mercury until recently.  I haven't read The Petting Zoo yet. 

It's the abstract elements that throw me. I'm used to poetry where what you see is what you get. Mary Oliver,  for e.g. 

Recently I reread Forced Entries and enjoyed it more than the first time,  when it was first published.  

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[jeremy roberts]

Thanks for that. 

It was fun - I read a selection of his work when it was my turn. :)

I recommend all of his books !

Jeremy 

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[Jeremiah Underwood]

My name is Jeremiah, I am 32-year-old poet/writer living homeless in Southern West Virginia. 

(I kind of wrote something along the lines of what everyone is doing in this thread, but i want to be sure to participate.) 

So....Despite being a writer I always find it difficult to adequately explain my connection to the handful of artists that really hit that fucking spot in the gut. 

I was already a serious Poet when I discovered Jim Carroll. I have no formal education with poetry; I come from the school of Kurt Cobain, where passion and authenticity becomes the reward when you repeatedly receive rejection notices on submittable.  

"8 FRAGMENTS FOR KURT COBAIN," was how I was introduced to Jim; and I watched his MTV spoken word session, and I was totally fucked up, man....I thought, Holy fucking shit, he is intense. 

Quickly, I began my Jim Carroll journey. And....it totally blew me away, dude. The way he somehow balanced an atmosphere of post-modern culture with intense imagery that left phrases in your head for days is to this day something only he could do. His abilities to stop the camera on a specific, everyday scene (such as soaking in a red bathrtub while the INDIAN LOGO STAYS ON STATIC-EY SCREEN) and eject the film, inspecting it by layers of grain, is something only our Irish artist could do. Others tried; and many were great poets; such as Berrigan, but it wasn't Jim. 

Jim is like............well......

He is like "THE ACUMALATION OF REEFS PILING UP, ONE OVER THE OTHER; OR A BEAUTIFUL SICK BIRD THAT DETERMINES THE WEATHER FOR EACH DAY; OR AN ANALOG JUKEBOX THAT REFUSES TO BE FORGOTTEN----IT HAS STYLE, DIG? OR MAYBE, JIM IS LIKE A POWERFUL SPELL OF WITCHY VOODOO IN THE PARK; WHERE SUCH SCENERY SURROUNDS YOU, BUT YOU FOCUS ON THE HEP-C YELLOW EYES OF A CRANKED OUT ADDICT. 

NO, JIM CARROLL IS LIKE RECLINING IN AN ARMCHAIR, INHALING THE DEATH OF THE DAY; WHILE A FUCKING BIBLICAL RAVEN DESCRIBES TO YOU the cage time square has you in..... IT......HE, JIM CARROLL, IS LIKE THE MOST DROWSEY, BEAUTIFUL NOD. 

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