Here’s a scanned copy of an interview with the recently-departed punk poet icon Jim Carroll, by Joseph Menn in the Boston Globe. The article is not available anywhere online, and it’s a fascinating read, so I’m glad Joe scanned it and published to Flickr.
Joe says, “[The interview took place] in person, at a Boston hotel in 1987. He was an amazing mix of imaginative power at work and straight-up stoner dude. He talked about how when he was in heroin withdrawal, the images he wanted would pile up uselessly like parked cars, then move too fast for him to catch, as in Koyanisqaatsi. But first he saw the chocolate on his pillow and said, ‘Man, I could dig THAT later!'”
Flickr set of scanned images. Click “all sizes” on each scanned page to view a size large enough to read comfortably on-screen, they’re scanned in high-rez. You can follow Joe on Twitter here.
Previously on BB: The great punk poet Jim Carroll has died.