Jim Carroll at Missouri Southern State College
Joplin, MO (3/17/99)
Review by Damien9693 at aol dot com
It was really cool. Jim is way funnier than I thought he would be. He made cracks before and after most of his poems. He didn’t mention the Make a Wish kid. But he did have a cold and had to blow his nose a couple of times. Which he does quite loudly I might add. Here is his set list (not in any particular order)
A day at the races ( FE )
The Two Signs ( FE )
Tiny Tortures ( FE )
With Van Gogh ( FoD )
8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain ( VoC )
From a Message on an Answering Machine ( VoC )
Poem ( VoC pg. 53 )
Poem ( VoC pg. 112 )
Sick Bird ( VoC )
Train Surfing ( VoC )
I Want the Angel
Falling Down Laughing
Facts ( VoC )
Poem ( VoC pg. 49 )
Jukebox ( VoC )
Spy ( VoC )
Poem ( VoC pg. 12 )
The Ocean Below ( VoC )
Poem ( VoC pg. 47 )
He signed all four of my books for me, I was the second one up there to ask him and the line behind me was HUGE! A couple of the poems he read he said he had never read before. He started to read one from Forced Entries about when he was taking speed to get off heroin and he had to take heroin again to get healthy, but he decided against it for some reason. I for one would have loved to hear it.