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Original Title:	Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1
ISBN:	0679726225 (ISBN13: 9780679726227)
Edition Language:	English

Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

Jim Morrison

Paperback | Pages: 214 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 3189 Users | 140 Reviews

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"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all the doors. You can walk through any one that suits you." -- Jim Morrison

As the lead singer and song writer for The Doors, Jim Morrison brought the poetry of the damned to rock'n'roll. As a poet, he infused verse with the wild lyricism and mesmerizing beat of rock. By the time of his death in 1971, Morrison had become one of the most haunting voices in the collective unconscious of America, echoed by performers such as Patti Smith.

This book, compiled from the Morrison literary estate by his beloved friends, presents Morrison's unpublished work for the first time--poems that celebrate the juju of sex, the touring musician's labyrinth of highways, airports, and motel corridors, and the shamanistic power of rock'n'roll, as well as photographs, drawings, facsimiles from Morrison's diaries, and a self-interview that reveals him as he has never been revealed before. A genuine literary event, Wilderness is the last testament of a writer of liberating ferocity and tenderness whose tremendous impact on an entire generation is still being felt.

Cover photo by Frank Lisciandro
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Title	:	Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1
Author	:	Jim Morrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 214 pages
Published	:	December 17th 1989 by Random House Vintage Books (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Poetry. Music. Nonfiction

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I enjoyed this book for the most part and it was a quick read. There were good things here, as well as some not so good things - but I think a lot of it was left unfinished and may have been presented in a way Jim might not have put forth publicly himself. I think those behind the book seemed honest about that, though. That said, unless you like poetry and/or are a Jim Morrison fan, this may not be for you.

I will always love Jim Morrison and his poetry. He was a genius and he will be remembered. That is if the world survives nehnehdo you think maybe 5 thousand years from now people might still read him? maybe? maybe not?he couldn't help who he was how he lived and how he died. can you? I can't. can anyone?I think he is one of the finest poets this country ever produced.

This book was amazing. It was the first poetry book by Jim Morrison that I have read and it really was an enjoyable read. The book was appropriately titled "Wilderness" because Jim often used the word in his poems, and allot of his poems featured themes of the wild. Most the poems focused on his opinions of life, Death, Music, and modern America (from 1968-71). Because this book was released after his death there are a few unfinished poems in the book. Allot of the poems are also not titled, but

Gorgeous, inspiring, filled with the beauty of destruction and creation. Limitless. A milestone in my life.

Indians, people knocking on doors, and telephones. These seem to be the bulk images of Morrison's poetry. The man could carry a verse, for sure, but most of these "poems" were nothing more than vignettes, like images conjured up in a daydream, or that hazy time when you are falling asleep or first awaken. Interesting little read, but nothing profound here. I believe Morrison was a better musician/lyricist than he was a poet.

Though it may be difficult for some readers to understand where Jim was coming from in his poems, they were overall visionary and beautiful in their own right. Some poems were purely observation, but that was what he saw in society from his perspective. While some may shudder at the grotesque and scoff at the pedestrian poems, that is his artistic expression in its rawest form. I feel his poems are the lyrics that didn't quite cut it for the rest of the doors. A marvelous read for any Doors or

Hallucinatory poetry.