Jim Carroll Praying Mantis

Those only familiar with "People Who Died" may not realize that Jim Carroll, like Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, first started performing as a poet in the Lower East Side scene. And this 1991 album takes you to the heart of that scene, St. Mark's Church on the Bowery, for a series of poems and monologues taken from Carroll's collections "Living at the Movies" (1973), "The Book of Nods" (1986) and "Forced Entries" (1987), as well as a 14-minute improvised rant entitled "The Loss of American Innocence". Something of a greatest-hits poetry collection, this digipak reissue is essential for Jim Carroll fans!