tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post263753888692377021..comments2024-01-31T01:39:02.006-08:00Comments on Vanitas Magazine: TC: Jim Carroll and the Imaginal Particular: "The clock is ticking..."VANITAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486783210928118377noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-7542586941510223622009-09-22T00:55:23.120-07:002009-09-22T00:55:23.120-07:00Michael,
Thanks for hanging in there with this, I...Michael,<br /><br />Thanks for hanging in there with this, I know you were always there.<br /><br />Perhaps because it was something he kept unto himself, JC's dedication to and care for the craft has maybe gone overlooked. The writerly mediation that you have (elsewhere) noted in The Basketball Diaries, removing it from a raw "verité" accounting, should have been a lesson to us though as he probably would have wished, it was all too easy to miss. The decade of work on that book made it into a fiction. I think he was consciously intent on making works. (What's that old saw, Distance lends enchantment to the view?) Likewise I got the impression he worked equally hard and long on his poems. As a close friend of his all through his adult years has lately put it, "He was dead serious about his writing (that's pretty much all there was at the end)."<br /><br />And now it's pretty much all we have left, along with the memories.<br /><br />But of course that's a lot.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-63616452346529746942009-09-21T19:49:43.498-07:002009-09-21T19:49:43.498-07:00Great exchange with Vincent. Both of you getting a...Great exchange with Vincent. Both of you getting at some particulars in the haze of others' (including myself) less focused on technique and commitment (and calling) aspects. Thanks to you both for sharing that dialogue.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-33511814378052479182009-09-19T16:53:37.773-07:002009-09-19T16:53:37.773-07:00Many thanks, James. Nothing could be more valuable...Many thanks, James. Nothing could be more valuable than a word from the Sphinx!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-74191236662302196132009-09-19T16:35:57.434-07:002009-09-19T16:35:57.434-07:00Nice tribute to JC. Well argued, felt, thus true.Nice tribute to JC. Well argued, felt, thus true.JforJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178504373218996278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-10511012282199041232009-09-19T16:34:16.755-07:002009-09-19T16:34:16.755-07:00Thanks, Don. As to the work, happily, it seems th...Thanks, Don. As to the work, happily, it seems that's not quite at a full stop yet. At the time of his untimely passing Jim was finishing up a novel, Triptych. Its final lines are quoted by Anne Waldman toward the end of the comment thread at this memorial post:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Carroll</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-23426187724812409852009-09-19T12:16:20.885-07:002009-09-19T12:16:20.885-07:00Thanks for this, Tom:
"snowblinded by the bl...Thanks for this, Tom:<br /><br />"snowblinded by the blizzard of meanings contained or hidden in words like rock star or junkie. The work really remains virgo intacta when it comes to critical examination. But the clock is ticking and its time is coming."<br /><br />The work, now. Period. That is the man.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com