• By hortense
    Sep 13, 2009 7:55 PM 2,193
    read more: #rip, #jimcarroll, #poetry, #sadness, #gettypic

    Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60

    Punk rock poet Jim Carroll, who is perhaps best known for his memoir, "The Basketball Diaries," has died of a heart attack. As Patti Smith told the New York Times, Carroll's "work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." [NYTimes]


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