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Summary: This book is great
Review: "The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison Volume 2" is a collection of short stories and poetry written by Jim Morrison. This book has interestingly diverse content. It includes lyrical verse of many musical styles, uncorrected journals, and pages of unconventional poetry. The stories and poems are very distinct and separate considering it is a compilation of work that spans many years. You may read autobiographies or descriptions of Jim Morrison and learn facts about the events of his life, but if you prefer to form your own opinions and make your own judgments, this book gives you insight into Jim Morrison through his writings.
The wild and charismatic Jim Morrison is revealed in his documents. Some of the writings may not be grammatically correct or traditionally written, since most of the work in this book was never revised. On the other hand, revisions may have tainted the overall impact of the work. The writing is so gripping and unique that it holds your interest from cover to cover. There is just enough reality in his writing to keep you engrossed and enables you to relate to the text. Jim Morrison was a great poet, songwriter, and author. Go ahead and pick up a copy of this intriguing book, it won't let you down.
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Summary: Read my review for "Wilderness".
Review: "The American Prayer" blew me away. Make sure you read that part of the book.
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Summary: For any true Morrison fan!
Review: Allows the reader an even deeper perspective of what was really going on in the head of Mr. MOJO RISING. A MUST READ.
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Summary: Poetry at it's finest
Review: For so long students have been shown and taught about poetry in "medieval" ways by boring, old teachers. Made to write pointless Haiku's or name poems, etc... None of them give a blossoming student, with dreams to someday be a writer, a chance. Few students today can appreciate the artform it truly is, because of the way they're subjected to it, moreless write it. James Douglass Morrison, in this peice and his other poetry he has written, creates that bridge to youth,like myself and others. "The American Night", allows us to "Break on Through, to the other side", to Jim's side.
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Summary: one
Review: i felt what he meant he wrote of that time and place and its in there you just gotta look for it his mind set on some issues are one in the same with me i wrote similair ideas on certain things and then i read the book and was blown away by how i feel we had the same i deas
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Summary: The American Night: Potential Underused
Review: I have read Jim Morrison's The American Night before & am now buying it just to prove the point that rock music ruins real poetical talent.Morrison's American Night, just like Morrison's Wilderness, demonstrates a sense of poet-being completely detached from the real poets of the 1960s/early 1970s. Much of the poems are barren of depth, thereby appealing perhaps to folks who do not relish the concept of poetry being 'full of meaning'. Most of the poems deal in such blunt language as to prove the genius of Beat Poets such as Allan Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac & Black Mountain poets such as Gary Snyder to be so much more powerful & real. Indeed, every poem in The American Night is so weighed down by rock poetics (ie. poetics that fail to please admirers of 'higher brow' poetry) that it surely fails to prove the oft-toted concept of Jim Morrison being a 'great U.S. poet'. The American Night ranges from incised drunken ramblings (incised in that they have been carefully edited after Morrison's death) to weak attempts at mystical 'pithiness', as embodied in verse expressions akin to 'up the hill, we see the Egyptians/down the hill, we see the crystal ship', effectively ruling out any ideal of Jim Morrison being a 'thwarted genius' since they deal in such infantile imagery as to be negligible to all prepollent poetry emerging from minds genuinely adhered to ingenious verse resonances, which, by nature, are altogether more all-absolving. In conclusion, Morrison's The American Night just goes to prove how sad a life of 'poet-being without real poet-sense' can be. In effect, it is a tome of intense sadness, its innate energy an example of creativity gone awry due to a universe of rock music, which, after all, preaches nothing but 'beer, cigarettes & a permanent coma'. I give it 2 stars simply because it is better than Morrison's Wilderness, which is surely an example of poetry that never gets off the rock-arena-ground at all.
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Summary: Truly Touched
Review: I have read this book at least five times and I still cant explain the feelings I get when I open it. I also write poetry and James Morrison is nothing but an angel.
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Summary: an american prayer in poetry
Review: I must admit, I find Jim's poems very symbolic and understanding his meanings is sometimes like trying to crack open a hard nutshell. But his poems are highly intelligent, showing much knowledge and a strong command of language, an ability to use language creatively. Apart from poems culled from his notebooks after his death, this book also includes an intriguing and disturbing unfinished screenplay about a hitchhiker who commits murder, and includes the text to his more poetic song lyrics. David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
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Summary: The best is yet to come.
Review: I think this is one of the best poem books ever to be ritten,
if you love jim morrison and his poems you must read this it is a must. let the poems take you on a unforgetteble journey....
read it, love it
cencearly yours
john bitster
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Summary: This Is Morrison's best poetry
Review: If you're unable to chose between all three or you're questioning The American Night, chose this one. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED
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