{"product_id":"9780140586954","title":"Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eCarroll, Jim\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePenguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11\/1\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eCarroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Basketball Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll’s \u003ci\u003eLiving at the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Nods\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 1986. \u003ci\u003eFear of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDreaming \u003c\/i\u003ealso includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’s Charm,” a vignette set in New York City’s Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43380209877247,"sku":"9780140586954","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780140586954_s600x595.jpg?v=1777307785","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780140586954","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}