Jim Carroll Summary

In the following brief review, Cooney faults Carroll's poetry in Living at the Movies. These imitative poems range in models from the portentous pseudo-reference of John Ashbery to the flat tri... Read more

In the following interview, portions of which also appeared in The Street, Gladysz and Carroll discuss Carroll's writing career, his methods of writing Forced Entries and The Basketball Diaries... Read more

In the following brief review, the critic discusses the poems in Void of Course. An alternately self-exposing and swaggering Bukowskian diarist, Carroll reinforces his rock-star-like pop culture niche... Read more

In the following interview, Alteri questions Carroll about his spoken-word recordings, his feelings about poetry, his drug addiction, and the conflict between his musical career and his literary aspir... Read more

In the following essay, Flippo addresses Carroll's move from poetry writer to rock musician and interviews the poet/songwriter about his life, his former drug addiction, and his literary influe... Read more

In the following brief review, Guillory praises Carroll's ability to shock readers with incongruous images in The Book of Nods. Carroll’s prose poems (or “nods”) are like v... Read more

In the following review, the critic pans Forced Entries for its lack of substance. While acknowledging the occasional flashes of intense humor and wit, the critic derides Carroll for providing too muc... Read more