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Article: CARROLL REVELS IN ``FREE'' VERSE.(Books)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1998
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Byline: Patti Thorn
Andy Carroll has just been to prison, handing out books of poetry for godssake. And if you think a bunch of burly inmates are more likely to bench-press a stack of books than read them, Carroll begs to differ. ``My hands are trembling,'' he says of his excitement. ``Eighty-four percent, I think, of the inmates were in there for life - and they want books. These guys were quoting me poems from memory as I was talking to them.''
And inmates aren't the only ones snarfing up books from Carroll.
Nursing-home patients on the Choctaw Reservation in Mississippi, kids at the St. Louis Zoo, bleary-eyed patrons at an all-night diner in ...