Rebel with a Pen: The Poetry of James Dean

Rebel with a Pen: The Poetry of James Dean By Carlton Hayes

The description for this book, on Amazon, includes these sentences: "The original poems are in the possession of Carlton Hayes and were directly obtained and channeled through him from James Dean. Mr. Hayes makes no comment to what the relationship was and is between Mr. Dean and himself."  That should set off warning bells for anyone looking at this book.  I've read reviews of people who actually believed they were reading James Dean's poetry, looking at his artwork. 

I'm a huge James Dean fan, so I try to read everything I find with his name on it. I'm sure if we actually had a book of poetry and his doodles it'd be brilliant. This is not that. Save your money and buy an actual book on James Dean if you're into him or a print of one of the photos of him. Or even go buy poetry by someone who doesn't have to stoop to just throwing James Dean's name on their book because they can't sell their work any other way.