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Void of Course<\/i><\/h2>\n

Review by Benjamin Segedin
\nBooklist<\/i> 95.4 (15 Oct. 1998): 389<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Carroll, Jim.
\n Void of Course<\/i>.
\n Oct. 1998. 119p.
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\n Penguin, paper, $12.95 (0-14-058909-0).
\n DDC: 811 <\/p>\n

Carroll,
\n experienced with heroin himself, offers belated advice to the
\n corpse of Kurt Cobain in the volume-opening “8 Fragments for Kurt
\n Cobain”: the price of genius mixed with that of fame makes a fatal
\n cocktail, “which starts out as a kiss\/And follows like a curse.”
\n Desperation and desire emanate from Carroll’s verse, but with
\n a certain poignancy, as if these words just have to be said. Carroll
\n exhumes his life and loves, and his candor at times startles.
\n He can shift gears, from a dirge like the Cobain piece to a comical,
\n though no less serious, aside on the avant-garde, Buddha, or his
\n father’s last words (“Promise me that you’ll never eat \/ Any of
\n that Japanese food. Promise”). funky, amphetamine rhythm propels
\n the collection and conjures the city, with its tenements, rushing
\n crowds, flickering televisions, and park benches. As Carroll ages
\n and matures, he acknowledges that “I’ve spent too much time \/
\n Expended angelic energy\/On my own disintegration to hand the contract
\n over \/ To another now.”<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 1998 American Library Association
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Home > Research > Book Reviews > Review of Void of Course by Benjamin Segedin Void of Course Review by Benjamin Segedin Booklist 95.4 (15 Oct. 1998): 389 Carroll, Jim. Void of Course. Oct. 1998. 119p. Penguin, paper, $12.95 (0-14-058909-0). 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