{"id":9881,"date":"2025-05-31T00:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=9881"},"modified":"2025-05-31T00:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:17:42","slug":"review-of-praying-mantis-college-music-journal-1991","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/music-reviews\/review-of-praying-mantis-college-music-journal-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of\u00a0Praying Mantis – College Music Journal – 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Praying Mantis
<\/em>Review in CMJ New Music Report<\/a>
<\/strong>6 December 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Carroll claims all this spoken stuff came “\u2026off the top of my head, so to speak.” Unlike the precision of an Eric Bogosian, Carroll’s top-of-the-head delivery gives his poems and stories an unusual and pleasurable immediacy as well as an element of surprise. You notice the surprise in Carroll’s own voice as you hear the twisted images and the rich descriptions leak from his brain to his almost stammering lips, which emit each piece with wide-eyed wonderment-like a child witnessing lightning for the first time His subject matter ranges from the disgusting like “A Day At The Races,” a laughably strange tale about two lovers, a certain crotch infection and a sporting event, to comical commentary about the pomposity of performance art in “Tiny Tortures,” to pure poetry, like the delicious and languid portrait of a Times Square prostitute in “Time Square’s Cage.” Other words to the wise: “To The National Endowment Of The Arts,” “The Loss Of American Innocence,” a `60s memory to end all, and the psychopathic “Just Visiting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9<\/strong> 2000 College Media, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original review was found at http:\/\/www.cmj.com\/Reviews\/review.phtml?artistName=JIM+CARROLL&recordingName=Praying+Mantis&reviewerName=%20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Praying MantisReview in CMJ New Music Report6 December 1991 Jim Carroll claims all this spoken stuff came “\u2026off the top of my head, so to speak.” Unlike the precision of an Eric Bogosian, Carroll’s top-of-the-head delivery gives his poems and stories an unusual and pleasurable immediacy as well as an element of surprise. You notice … Continue reading Review of\u00a0Praying Mantis – College Music Journal – 1991<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3987,"menu_order":0,"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":[36],"class_list":["post-9881","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2zn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4165,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/articles-poems-by-jim-carroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":9881,"position":0},"title":"Articles & Poems by Jim Carroll","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The Man Who Sold the World.\"\u00a0By Jim Carroll.\u00a0New York Times Book Review, 1 Dec. 2002.Carroll reviews Kurt Cobain's\u00a0Journals: \"It's fascinating like a car wreck, and I, for one, wish that only the music survived his death.\" \"I Shot a Deer.\" By Jim Carroll.\u00a0Gentlemen's Quarterly, January 2002: 113-14.GQ\u00a0asked five writers to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3987,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/music-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":9881,"position":1},"title":"Audio Reviews","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some reviews of \"audio recordings.\" So far the reviews are of albums by the Jim Carroll Band and solo albums by Jim Carroll\u00a0. 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