Article: Jim Carroll, 60, punk rock poet; Jim Carroll, 60, celebrated poet and punk rock singer

WILLIAM GRIMES
International Herald Tribune
09-15-2009
Jim Carroll, 60, punk rock poet; Jim Carroll, 60, celebrated poet and punk rock singer
Byline: WILLIAM GRIMES
Type: News

Jim Carroll, a poet in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs chronicled his wild youth in "The Basketball Diaries."

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 Friday at his home in New York. He was 60.
The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.

As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, Mr. ...

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