Lollipop Magazine

Void of Course – Poems 1994-1997 – Jim Carroll – Review

April 1, 1999

Celebrated NYC prose punk descendant of the Patti-Lou School of Street Poetics in his latest rhythmic fit. Seventy-five new pieces.

Patti Smith Complete – Review

April 1, 1999

Collection of poems, photos, and untitled notes spanning three decades of Patti Smith’s career.

No Forwarding Address – Natalie Jacobson – Review

April 1, 1999

Val and Doyle are two friends occupying the alternative universe of poet/prose-ist Natalie Jacobson’s downtown New York streets of the early 1980s.

Nick Drake – Patrick Humphries – Review

April 1, 1999

First ever word bio of influential ’60s folkie dark child who OD’d on anti-depressants at the tender age of 26 and left three albums behind.

Mister Satan’s Apprentice – A Blues Memoir – Adam Gussow – Review

April 1, 1999

Satan and Adam are the two real-life, street-busking musicians brought together by their appreciation of The Blues.

Jack Kerouac – King of the Beats – Barry Miles – Review

April 1, 1999

Barry Miles, who’s previously authored works on Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Paul McCartney, undertakes Assignment Kerouac in the role of American storyteller.

Herbert Huncke Reader – Review

April 1, 1999

A splatterful of previously-unpublished scrawls from America’s Genet; graceful nobility amid thieving, street-hustling, hypodermic dreams.

Hail Babylon! – Andrei Codrescu – Review

April 1, 1999

Disappointed in his search for The New World, he finds instead a land laden with the crass mechanical plumbing of commercialism.

Blood of Mugwump – Doug Rice – Review

April 1, 1999

Legend and confusion serenade the mystery of the day when an entire roomful of students were consumed by the Earth after a reading of the book.

American Goliath – Harvey Jacobs – Review

April 1, 1999

Wondrous literate combination of historical fact and creative imagination recalls the hoax/miracle that healed the sick and gave hope to the hopeless.