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Lengendary poet Jim Carroll.
This week's Pause for Poetry focuses on legendary basketball player, poet, and musician Jim Carroll, who died at age 60 on September 11, 2009 in Manhattan, NY.
Unlike most writers, Carroll was already a well-known writer when, at just 13 years old, Jack Karouac said, “Jim Carroll writes better prose than 89% of the novelists working today.” Carroll is probably best known for his book The Basketball Diaries, published in 1978, the actual diary he kept from ages 12 to 15, which chronicled a life of basketball, friendship, writing, and drugs in New York’s Lower East Side.
Read full article and watch both videos at LA Books Examiner.
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