Void of Course

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/1998
ISBN: 9780140589092
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.52w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/28/1998 pg. 96
Booklist 10/15/1998 pg. 389