Comments on: Jim Carroll (1949-2009) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gabriella May http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/#comment-25435 Gabriella May Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:12:26 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5094#comment-25435 Hiding away from facing a terrifying moment of medical decision in my life, I read today in Sunday's NY Times of Jim's leaving us, leaving me. Being a poet of Jim's generation, and having sat in the booth behind him at that Chelsea diner so many times, I suddenly felt the sting of shock that the inevitable ending for all of us is real, something we never dare to imagine as we waste precious moments wondering at nonsensical irrelevancies. I remember his narrator voice at the next booth, perhaps discussing a computer problem he needed someone to fix, or the incredible explosion of colors at some particular sunset, or just rambling into precious corners of life and connecting unlikely related flecks of reality and insight to seemingly insignificant non-trivia. He made sense in his own unique and charming rhythms of this time and space in which we find ourselves. Love you, Jim. Live on, live on, live on.... Hiding away from facing a terrifying moment of medical decision in my life, I read today in Sunday’s NY Times of Jim’s leaving us, leaving me. Being a poet of Jim’s generation, and having sat in the booth behind him at that Chelsea diner so many times, I suddenly felt the sting of shock that the inevitable ending for all of us is real, something we never dare to imagine as we waste precious moments wondering at nonsensical irrelevancies. I remember his narrator voice at the next booth, perhaps discussing a computer problem he needed someone to fix, or the incredible explosion of colors at some particular sunset, or just rambling into precious corners of life and connecting unlikely related flecks of reality and insight to seemingly insignificant non-trivia. He made sense in his own unique and charming rhythms of this time and space in which we find ourselves.
Love you, Jim. Live on, live on, live on….
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]]> By: Owen Hill http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/#comment-25277 Owen Hill Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:16 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5094#comment-25277 Saw you read with him at Intersection in SF--don't remember how massively straight the scene was, but good writing/reading trumps all scenes. You were both brilliant, as I remember. A great poet--Living at The Movies will never leave my personal library. Saw you read with him at Intersection in SF–don’t remember how massively straight the scene was, but good writing/reading trumps all scenes. You were both brilliant, as I remember.

A great poet–Living at The Movies will never leave my personal library.
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]]> By: Benjamin Harrell http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/#comment-25270 Benjamin Harrell Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:57:09 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5094#comment-25270 Thanks for remembering him this way. Thanks for remembering him this way.
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]]> By: tom clark http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/#comment-25264 tom clark Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:51:41 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5094#comment-25264 That second link didn't come up, sorry, let me try coding it again: <a href="http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/09/tc-jim-carroll-pax-aeternum.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Carroll: Pax Aeternum</a> That second link didn’t come up, sorry, let me try coding it again:

Jim Carroll: Pax Aeternum
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]]> By: tom clark http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/#comment-25263 tom clark Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:49:14 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5094#comment-25263 Hi Eileen, Thanks for remembering Jim as the great poet he was. FYI, I've put up these commemorations: <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Carroll</a> <a href="http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/09/tc-jim-carroll-pax-aeternum.html"<Jim Carroll: Pax Aeternum</a> Tom Clark Hi Eileen,

Thanks for remembering Jim as the great poet he was.

FYI, I’ve put up these commemorations:

Jim Carroll

<a href="http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/09/tc-jim-carroll-pax-aeternum.html"<Jim Carroll: Pax Aeternum

Tom Clark
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]]> By: Jill http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/jim-carroll-1949-2009/#comment-25261 Jill Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:47:36 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5094#comment-25261 Did Jim have a Facebook page? I know that sounds flippant, but I don't mean it to be. I just wonder how well someone might be able to keep up the public and private push and pull like Jim did in this age of constantly-updated affability. "Sooo nervous for my reading tonite!" "Should I tell the altar boy story again? Yes or No?" I love the blurring a lot of the writers of Jim (and your) era did/does between the performed and the private. I wonder what the next version of it will be. JT Leroy? Brandon Scott Gorrell? Miranda July? Is it already happening somewhere? Did Jim have a Facebook page? I know that sounds flippant, but I don’t mean it to be. I just wonder how well someone might be able to keep up the public and private push and pull like Jim did in this age of constantly-updated affability. “Sooo nervous for my reading tonite!” “Should I tell the altar boy story again? Yes or No?” I love the blurring a lot of the writers of Jim (and your) era did/does between the performed and the private. I wonder what the next version of it will be. JT Leroy? Brandon Scott Gorrell? Miranda July? Is it already happening somewhere?
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