Jim Carroll
Praying Mantis
Label:  Giant 
Date:  1991
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Poetry; Spoken Word
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Fragment: Little N.Y. Ode    
      2.  
      		 A Day At the Races    
      3.  
      		 Times Square's Cage    
      4.  
      		 A Child Growing Up With the Sun    
      5.  
      		 Tiny Tortures    
      6.  
      		 To the Nationional Endowment of the Arts    
      7.  
      		 Terrorist Trousers    
      8.  
      		 Monlogue: the Loss of American Innocence    
      9.  
      		 For Elizabeth    
      10.  
      		 Sampling Nietzche    
      11.  
      		 Just Visiting    
      12.  
      		 Praying Mantis    
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      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. 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!