{"product_id":"9781617753381","title":"Starve the Vulture: A Memoir","description":"\"Jaunty, frank, and compelling, Carney shares his instructive story with generosity and insight.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carney will easily win sympathy for his life, in which he has persevered to show others the hard work of his salvation.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thanks to Carney's long career as a poet, there are some truly beautiful, enthralling passages that make the book a real page turner.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLitReactor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carney weaves beautiful imagery into each scene, pulling the reader down the rabbit hole with him. His voice is raw and honest, similar to his poetic voice if you've had the good sense to have listened to him read before. With a deft hand, Carney takes what could be a kaleidoscope of agony, a narrative too hard to absorb, and softens each blow with his gentle prose.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePANK Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It seems impossible to me that a reader could fail to be gripped by Carney's straightforward, vulnerable voice, which is able to imbue the harrowing events of his life with beauty, humor, and deep meaning.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHippocampus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A story of tremendous courage and creativity in overcoming.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003ePoet Victoria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Before he was a sex-addict-crackhead-boozer-porn-salesman sliding downward in the Dallas demimonde, Jason Carney was a poet, a lowlife who prized his thesaurus as much as his speed pipe...He made it out, and \u003ci\u003eStarve the Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e tells how he did it, how poetic ecstasy trumped sordid pleasure. Brisk, electric, and moving, his story recalls both Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eIntimate Journals\u003c\/i\u003e and Bunyan's \u003ci\u003ePilgrim's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJ. Michael Lennon\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNorman Mailer: A Double Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While everyone with a pen claims to have been to hell and back, Jason Carney crafts his own harrowing perdition with a singular voice that is brash, unflinching, and eerily poetic.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003ePatricia Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eShoulda Been Jimi Savannah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As Jason Carney takes himself from transgression to transcendence, he takes us with him. What starves the vulture will feed the reader.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eDaphne Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e15 Ways to Stay Alive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe latest from Akashic's Kaylie Jones Books imprint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lyrical, mesmerizing debut from Jason Carney who overcomes his own racism, homophobia, drug addiction, and harrowing brushes with death to find redemption and unlikely fame on the national performance poetry circuit. Woven into Carney's path to recovery is a powerful family story, depicting the roots of prejudice and dysfunction through several generations.","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113596272880,"sku":"9781617753381","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617753381_p0.jpg?v=1772805912","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617753381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}