Fear of Dreaming
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. This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll’s Living at the Movies , which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book of Nods , released in 1986. Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’