The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics

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Very nice collection

Amazing!, worth much more than the price, one of the best book I ever had…and behind the cover you can find a high quality black book

Perfect, thank you!

I have been waiting for this for almost 40 years. I discovered the Doors when I was fifteen. I am 58 now, and this is the Jim Morrison I loved. Jim inspired me to be a poet. I had the opportunity to read my original poetry at his grave site in Paris France in October 2016.I left the chapbook on his tombstone. The rains came and washed the words away as quickly as Jim's short life.After reading this book, I now realize that The Doors for Jim was just a way to get some notoriety for his writing. One can also gather, he never wanted to be a rock star. He wanted to make film and write.Had he never met Ray on the beach that famous day when they decided to create a rock and roll band, I think Jim would have ended up like Sam Shepard, Sam Neil, and Sam Elliot. He would be a writer and a filmmaker. It is evident that rock and roll was something that he never really wanted.Yes, Jim had that amazing untrained baritone voice, but he was a natural writer, and this collection is evident of his talent. Like Bukowski, Jim had a taste for the strange. He had a curiosity that the band members did not.It is evident in his poetry that Jim was questioning his own sexuality in regards to preference, identity, and orientation. This may have been what drove his alcoholism. He was not able to be himself. He once claimed in an interview that homosexuality "was not my trip...", but he had no qualms about people being homosexual.While the band were average to good musicians, Jim could have been vocalist for anyone. It was evident when Jim left the band before he died in July 1971, that the band simply was not a force without him. They were nothing without him, and Pam Courson was too dysfunctional to appreciate him because of her heroin use. Had rock and roll not been a factor, Jim and Pamela could have been the quintessential artistic couple with her art, and his writing and film.This collection shows his humor and talent as a writer. It is evident here that Jim Morrison was a rock and roll music business tragedy by the greed of the pop music business like Jimi and Janis a year before him.On the collection: Backstage and Dangerous recorded in 1969 as a rehearsal, JIm's improve is priceless. He spent a lot of the record bashing the music business for it's greed. Shortly after Miami, (and the transcript is included), it was evident that Jim was trying to sabotage it all for peace and quite. He wanted to write. He contemplated leaving the Doors after their third album, and Pamela encouraged him to stay. Again, she did not know him.This is the writer we wish we could still see today. Jim would be 78 in December. Like writers of his generation, Michael McClure. Gay Talese, Jim may still be a writer today.I would recommend this collection to any serious writer and poet who wants to see the true soul of a poet. I am just saddened to this day that Jim left us so young. Just like Gen X lost Kurt Cobain, (For which saddens me) us baby boomers lost Jim.Buy this book!Rest In Peace Jim.

Would highly recommend for all Doors/Jim Morrison fans. Very informative, provides a great insight re the creative mind of Jim.