{"product_id":"living-at-the-movies","title":"Living at the Movies","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1973, Living at the Movies was the first aboveground publication of the work of Jim Carroll, a singer-songwriter Newsweek called “contender for the title of rock’s new poet laureate.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these poems, all written before the age of twenty-two, Carroll shows an uncanny virtuosity. His power and poisoned purity of vision are reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud, and, like the strongest poets of the New York School, Carroll transforms the everyday details of city life into poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn language at once delicate, hallucinatory, and menacing, his major themes—love, friendship, the exquisite pains and pleasures of drugs, and above all, the ever-present city—emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. It is an astonishing debut by an important American writer and artist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Jim Carroll has the sure confidence of a true artist. . . . He is steeped in his craft. He has worked as only a man of inspiration is capable of working. . . . His beginning is a triumph.”—Gerard Malanga, Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jim Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.75 x 7.75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate of Publication:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 1981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-0140422900\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48698640367872,"sku":"9780140422900","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/livingatthemovies.jpg?v=1778344682","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/living-at-the-movies","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}