[kj] Jim Carroll, punk rock poet, dead

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Well, someone had to post this unfortunate news here first :((


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September 14, 2009

Jim Carroll, 60, Poet and Punk Rocker, Dies
By WILLIAM GRIMES

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud 
and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” 
died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.

The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1