Jim Carroll’s Work in Anthologies

Updated 3 January 2009

The Portable Sixties Reader
Published: January 2003
Ed. Ann Charters
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Description: Includes selections from The Basketball Diaries. “From
civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk,
the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical
experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In
this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays,
poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers,
Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.”

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The
Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes
Published: April 2003
Eds. Francesco Bonami, Raf
Simons and Maria Luisa Frisa
Publisher:Charta
Description: Includes selections from The Basketball
Diaries. “The Fourth Sex turns a critical,
illustrated spotlight on adolescence, a territory of transition
crisscrossed by the most varied creative energies. A series
of iconographic materials begins in the 1960s and moves up
to the present, revealing clothes, behavior patterns, novels,
and visual artworks created or inspired by the transnational
tribe that are teenagers.”

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Angel
Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology
Published: 2001
Eds. Anne Waldman
and Lewis Warsh
Publisher: Granary Books
Description: “This anthology presents material selected from the collection
of Angel Hair magazine and books edited by Anne Waldman and
Lewis Warsh between 1966 and 1978.” Selections from Carroll
include “The Burning of Bustins Island” and all
of his second (and rarest) book 4
Ups and 1 Down: “Blue
Poles,” “Love Rockets,” “Styro,” “Poem on My Son’s Birthday,”
and “To a Poetess.”

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The
OutLaw Bible of American Poetry 
Published: 1999
Eds. Alan Kaufman &
S. A. Griffin
Publisher: Thunder’s Mouth Press
Description: “More than two hundred ‘poets who don’t get taught in
American poetry 101.” ‘Selections from Carroll include “8
Fragments for Kurt Cobain,” “Facts,” “Jukebox,”
“The Ocean Below,” “With Van Gogh,” “Rimbaud
Sees the Dentist.”

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Postmodern
American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
Published: 1994
Ed. Paul Hoover
Publisher: Norton
Description: “Destined
to be the standard anthology of the last half century of
American experimental poetry.” Carroll’s selections
include “Withdrawal Letter,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,”
and “Paregoric Babies.”

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American
Childhoods: An Anthology
Published: 1987
Ed. David Willis McCullough
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Description: Includes several entries from The Basketball Diaries — from “Fall
63,” pages 3-5, 14-18; and from “Fall 64,” pages 66-72.

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Out
of This World: The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery,
An Anthology 1966-1991
Published: 1991
Ed. Anne Waldman
Publisher: Crown
Description: Includes “Dyoxin,” “Methadone Maintenance
Program–Mt. Sinai Hospital,” “Poem,” and “Fragment: Little
N.Y. Ode.”

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Another
World: A Second Anthology of Works from the St. Mark’s Poetry
Project
Published: 1970
Ed. Anne Waldman
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Description: Includes
“Vacation,” “Living at the Movies,” “Ten Things I Do When
I Shoot Up,” “The Blue Pill,” and “The Scumbag Machine.”

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The
World Anthology: Poems from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project
Published: 1969
Ed. Anne Waldman
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Description: Includes “Next Door,” “The Distances,”
“The Loft,” and “From the Basketball Diary: Feb. 4, 1965.”
 

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