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Summary: Morrison is Poetic Genuis
Review: Jim Morrison is a poetry master. one day he will be revered as the Frost, Dante, or Shakespeare of the 20th century. I must own for anyone who loves poetry.
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Summary: I have bought this two times, and both times it is stolen
Review: Just to give you an example of how good the writing is in this book is a testament to the fact that people will just grab it and take it. The reading is light, but powerful and JM chains thoughts and words together like ginsberg or whitman.Excellent.
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Summary: This collection from the three poetry books by Jim is the
Review: least exciting, It does however contain Jim's script for the film "The Hitchiker." It is also notable for having the last writting he did "The Paris Notebook."
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Summary: An Abject Failure As Art
Review: Morrison wrote rafts of "poetry," but when it was published in his own lifetime, he had to pay good money for the privelege. This volume demonstrates why. The song lyrics included are worthwhile but lack any depth without the wraparound effect of the music. The poetry contained herein is derivative of Ginsberg and Kerouac without capturing the meaning or depth those two towering greats injected into deceptively simple words. Morrison did most of his writing drunk -- sometimes strung out on yohimbe -- and you can tell. Like most "artists" who write or compose under the influence of chemicals, he thought he was greater than the finished product shows he actually was. Morrison once promised to abjure all art except his music, and we would all have been richly rewarded if he had done so and stuck with his strengths.
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Summary: complete and utter masterpiece
Review: not only is jim morrison the epitome of sex and everything good with it, he is an excellent writer to top it off. everything that is an enigma is in his writings. i love him and everything he does.
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Summary: beautiful, surreal poetry, flawed but still great
Review: okay, so morrison wasn't walt whitman. big deal. all you geniuses who knock him for being such a "pretentious" (a totally relative term)poet are probably turned on to the hip new sound of illustrious modern music geniuses like the backstreet boys or kid rock. well, to put it mildly, you guys can have them, and i for one prefer jim morrison to any the corporate owned commercialized out there today, who use absurd gimmicks and parade around in ridiculous costumes and makeup while openly admitting that all they are interested in is money. and i'm not some old hippie indulging in nostalgia--i'm 18. morrison was a passionate, idealistic, philosophical, intellectual poet who wanted to revolutionize society with the band's music. yes, things did not pan out as most of the artists (including morrison) envisioned it, but this is nonetheless heartfelt, sincere stuff, and it works as lyrics AND poetry, say what you may. i guarantee you that if morrison had lived he would have been an above average, if not legendary, poet, and that he would have made his mark among artists and intellectuals outside of pop culture. "an american prayer" is a touching poem and is the work of a man who had aspirations and ideals that were perhaps too lofty for one human being to carry out or realize at all, with or without the influence he had. he is obviously influenced poetically by the surrealists, the existentialists, and his poetry is more of the modern variety than the classical, as one would expect from such a rebellious, anti authoritarian individual. you can tell from these poems alone, and the poems in "wilderness", that while morrison was no shakespeare, he was an amazingly unique individual who somehow gained free access to his subconscious mind and who frequently employed imagery from it, seemingly whenever he wanted. and the guy who titled his commentary "abject failure as art" doesn't seem to recognize (or doesn't want to)that morrison was not writing from the traditional perspective, and one can probably be safe in assuming that he was of the dada/surrealist/futurist opinion that anything can be art, including life. if ever a man was himself the existential incarnation of his philosophy of life, jim morrison was it. this is a necessity and a must read, as is all the other poetry he wrote.
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Summary: beautiful, surreal poetry, flawed but still great
Review: okay, so morrison wasn't walt whitman. big deal. all you geniuses who knock him for being such a "pretentious" (a totally relative term)poet are probably turned on to the hip new sound of illustrious modern music geniuses like the backstreet boys or kid rock. well, to put it mildly, you guys can have them, and i for one prefer jim morrison to any the corporate owned commercialized crapmeisters out there today, who use absurd gimmicks and parade around in ridiculous costumes and makeup while openly admitting that all they are interested in is money. and i'm not some old hippie indulging in nostalgia--i'm 18. morrison was a passionate, idealistic, philosophical, intellectual poet who wanted to revolutionize society with the band's music. yes, things did not pan out as most of the artists (including morrison) envisioned it, but this is nonetheless heartfelt, sincere stuff, and it works as lyrics AND poetry, say what you may. i guarantee you that if morrison had lived he would have been an above average, if not legendary, poet, and that he would have made his mark among artists and intellectuals outside of pop culture. "an american prayer" is a touching poem and is the work of a man who had aspirations and ideals that were perhaps too lofty for one human being to carry out or realize at all, with or without the influence he had. he is obviously influenced poetically by the surrealists, the existentialists, and his poetry is more of the modern variety than the classical, as one would expect from such a rebellious, anti authoritarian individual. you can tell from these poems alone, and the poems in "wilderness", that while morrison was no shakespeare, he was an amazingly unique individual who somehow gained free access to his subconscious mind and who frequently employed imagery from it, seemingly whenever he wanted. and the guy who titled his commentary "abject failure as art" doesn't seem to recognize (or doesn't want to)that morrison was not writing from the traditional perspective, and one can probably be safe in assuming that he was of the dada/surrealist/futurist opinion that anything can be art, including life. if ever a man was himself the existential incarnation of his philosophy of life, jim morrison was it. this is a necessity and a must read, as is all the other poetry he wrote.
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Summary: beautiful, surreal poetry, flawed but still great
Review: okay, so morrison wasn't walt whitman. big deal. all you geniuses who knock him for being such a "pretentious" (a totally relative term)poet are probably turned on to the hip new sound of illustrious modern music geniuses like the backstreet boys or kid rock. well, to put it mildly, you guys can have them, and i for one prefer jim morrison to any the corporate owned commercialized out there today, who use absurd gimmicks and parade around in ridiculous costumes and makeup while openly admitting that all they are interested in is money. and i'm not some old hippie indulging in nostalgia--i'm 18. morrison was a passionate, idealistic, philosophical, intellectual poet who wanted to revolutionize society with the band's music. yes, things did not pan out as most of the artists (including morrison) envisioned it, but this is nonetheless heartfelt, sincere stuff, and it works as lyrics AND poetry, say what you may. i guarantee you that if morrison had lived he would have been an above average, if not legendary, poet, and that he would have made his mark among artists and intellectuals outside of pop culture. "an american prayer" is a touching poem and is the work of a man who had aspirations and ideals that were perhaps too lofty for one human being to carry out or realize at all, with or without the influence he had. he is obviously influenced poetically by the surrealists, the existentialists, and his poetry is more of the modern variety than the classical, as one would expect from such a rebellious, anti authoritarian individual. you can tell from these poems alone, and the poems in "wilderness", that while morrison was no shakespeare, he was an amazingly unique individual who somehow gained free access to his subconscious mind and who frequently employed imagery from it, seemingly whenever he wanted. and the guy who titled his commentary "abject failure as art" doesn't seem to recognize (or doesn't want to)that morrison was not writing from the traditional perspective, and one can probably be safe in assuming that he was of the dada/surrealist/futurist opinion that anything can be art, including life. if ever a man was himself the existential incarnation of his philosophy of life, jim morrison was it. this is a necessity and a must read, as is all the other poetry he wrote.
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Summary: beautiful, surreal poetry, flawed but still great
Review: okay, so morrison wasn't walt whitman. big deal. all you geniuses who knock him for being such a "pretentious" (a totally relative term)poet are probably turned on to the hip new sound of illustrious modern music geniuses like the backstreet boys or kid rock. well, to put it mildly, you guys can have them, and i for one prefer jim morrison to any the corporate owned commercialized crapmeisters out there today, who use absurd gimmicks and parade around in ridiculous costumes and makeup while openly admitting that all they are interested in is money. and i'm not some old hippie indulging in nostalgia--i'm 18. morrison was a passionate, idealistic, philosophical, intellectual poet who wanted to revolutionize society with the band's music. yes, things did not pan out as most of the artists (including morrison) envisioned it, but this is nonetheless heartfelt, sincere stuff, and it works as lyrics AND poetry, say what you may. i guarantee you that if morrison had lived he would have been an above average, if not legendary, poet, and that he would have made his mark among artists and intellectuals outside of pop culture. "an american prayer" is a touching poem and is the work of a man who had aspirations and ideals that were perhaps too lofty for one human being to carry out or realize at all, with or without the influence he had. he is obviously influenced poetically by the surrealists, the existentialists, and his poetry is more of the modern variety than the classical, as one would expect from such a rebellious, anti authoritarian individual. you can tell from these poems alone, and the poems in "wilderness", that while morrison was no shakespeare, he was an amazingly unique individual who somehow gained free access to his subconscious mind and who frequently employed imagery from it, seemingly whenever he wanted. and the guy who titled his commentary "abject failure as art" doesn't seem to recognize (or doesn't want to)that morrison was not writing from the traditional perspective, and one can probably be safe in assuming that he was of the dada/surrealist/futurist opinion that anything can be art, including life. if ever a man was himself the existential incarnation of his philosophy of life, jim morrison was it. this is a necessity and a must read, as is all the other poetry he wrote.
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Summary: When the music is your special friend...
Review: Snakeskin jacket, indian eyes, brilliant hair... He moves in disturbed nile insect air.
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