Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems -- Jim Carroll

Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir <i>The Basketball Diaries</i>, 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. <p/>This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll's <i>Living at the Movies</i>, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and <i>The Book of Nods</i>, released in 1986. <i>Fear of</i> <i>Dreaming </i>also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including "Curtis's Charm," a vignette set in New York City's Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic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. <p/> "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, <i>San Francisco Chronicle Book Review</i><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jim Carroll<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 11/01/1993<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.73lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.46h x 5.48w x 0.74d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780140586954<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Booklist</i> 10