{"id":4054,"date":"2022-01-10T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=4054"},"modified":"2025-03-10T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:54:31","slug":"rimbaud-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carroll-music-and-spoken-word\/spoken-word-lecture-recordings-by-jim-carroll\/rimbaud-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Rimbaud Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rimbaud Lectures<br>By Jim Carroll<br>American Poetry Archive, 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This set of four 90-minute cassette tapes is quite possibly the most important resource a Carroll scholar can have. I found it quite by accident, while doing one of my random web searches for new Jim stuff. What I found was an American Poetry Archive catalogue description of a 30-minute tape from 1974. When I contacted the American Poetry Archive about ordering this, I found out the X<a href=\"films.php#sfsu\">1974 tape was a video<\/a>, and that they also had a set of four cassettes. Without really eve were, I ordered them, and I can&#8217;t begin to describe how surprised I was at what I got. Even Jim didn&#8217;t know these tapes existed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I later found out that these tapes are available for on-site viewing, and not for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March and April of 1978, Carroll gave a series of lectures on Rimbaud and modern poetry at the New College of California. At this point, remember, Living at the Movies was the only major work he had published (the first edition of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-first-edition\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8649\">The Basketball Diaries<\/a><\/em> may have been just issued). The Jim Carroll Band did not yet exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the first lecture, Carroll&#8217;s presentations are seminars rather than straight lectures. Carroll&#8217;s lecturing style begins with him reading a poem, commenting on it for a while, then opening up the floor for discussion. Often students&#8217; questions direct what poems are discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is incredible about these lectures&#8211;six hours in all&#8211;is that, in talking about his subjects, he is teaching his own poetics. In so many interviews over the years he has referred to Henry Miller&#8217;s <em>Time of the Assassins<\/em>, the idea of the &#8220;inner register&#8221; and &#8220;heart quality,&#8221; subjective vs. objective imagery, his opinion of &#8220;concrete poetry,&#8221; the importance of phrasing in a song and line length in a poem, and much more. Here, he develops all of these concepts in detail, with examples from Rimbaud, Rilke, O&#8217;Hara, Whitman, Blake, Hopkins, Patti Smith, and other writers, plus a variety of painters, including Jackson Pollock among others. He talks  about symbolism, surrealism, concrete poetry, non-referential poetry, and rock music. The range of references is astounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, listening to him talk about his favorite poets and poems, it is fascinating to recognize the sources for many of his own works, at this time yet unwritten. An hour-long lecture on Rilke&#8217;s first Elegy reveals the literary roots of most of the Jim Carroll Band&#8217;s lyrics as well as a variety of poems as late as <em>The Book of Nods<\/em> (1986).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These tapes are a must for any Jim Carroll scholar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X<a href=\"films.php#sfsu\">1974 Video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Poetry Center&#8217;s complete catalogue were originally here: http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/~newlit\/newcatalog\/atoz.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rimbaud LecturesBy Jim CarrollAmerican Poetry Archive, 1978 This set of four 90-minute cassette tapes is quite possibly the most important resource a Carroll scholar can have. I found it quite by accident, while doing one of my random web searches for new Jim stuff. What I found was an American Poetry Archive catalogue description of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carroll-music-and-spoken-word\/spoken-word-lecture-recordings-by-jim-carroll\/rimbaud-lectures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rimbaud Lectures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4519,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[48],"class_list":["post-4054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-13o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4519,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carroll-music-and-spoken-word\/spoken-word-lecture-recordings-by-jim-carroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":4054,"position":0},"title":"Spoken-Word\/Lecture Recordings by Jim Carroll","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"See also: Spoken-Word: Collaborations Pools of MercuryReleased: 1998By: Jim CarrollLabel: MercuryGenre: Music and spoken word Get this album on Amazon Curtis's Charm: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackReleased: 1996By: Music by Mark Korven with songs by My Brilliant BeastLabel: Rabid Dog ProductionsGenre: Film soundtrack Carroll reads \"Curtis's Charm,\" from Fear of Dreaming.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naropa-university_174.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naropa-university_174.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naropa-university_174.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9232,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carroll-music-and-spoken-word\/spoken-word-lecture-recordings-by-jim-carroll\/naropa-institute-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":4054,"position":1},"title":"Naropa Institute Reading","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Logo - Naropa Institute (standing in for 1986 audio recording by JIm Carroll) Spoken-word PerformanceBy Jim Carroll AudiocassetteNaropa Institute Archives, July 1986 This hard-to-get tape features a spoken-word performance Carroll gave during his1986 summer at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, where he has frequently given writing workshops over the years.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naropa-university_174.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naropa-university_174.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/naropa-university_174.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9560,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/arthur-rimbaud\/","url_meta":{"origin":4054,"position":2},"title":"Arthur Rimbaud","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud at the age of seventeen, by \u00c9tienne Carjat, c. 1872. 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Definitely use this site to learn the identifying details! I've found the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4631,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carrolls-films\/","url_meta":{"origin":4054,"position":4},"title":"Jim Carroll&#8217;s Films","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Catholic BoyBy The Runnels BrothersWork in Progress: 2022 - Other pertinent details? Catholic Boy is a feature length documentary about the poet, prose writer and musician Jim Carroll. 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