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The Lost Writings Of Jim Morrison
Rolling Stone Issue No. 536
October 6 1988
Pre-amble Text By Unknown Author
Jim Morrison used writing the way a less literate generation of rock stars has used video cameras: as a means of charting the strange and perilous journey of a private person through the public world.
Morrison wrote incessantly throughout his life, and though he was deeply interested in filmmaking, he understood the power that writing grants - the power the writer possesses to be both the observed and the observer, to be both a documenter and a critic.
Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1 collects more than 200 pages of Morrison's autobiographical chronicle. Much of it is fragmentary, and some of it has appeared elsewhere in other forms, as lyrics or as parts of previously published works. The quality varies, though Morrison's writing is always revealing and always intriguing. At it's best, Morrison's work displays all the poet's skills. It has voice and vision. It draws on a tradition of romantic poetry that encompasses Morrison great idiol, William Blake, French symobolists like Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the apocalyptic mysticism of William Butler Yeats and shamanistic fury and simultaneous cool of the beats.
For all their purgative violence, sexuality and mythic force, the poems also show a touching self awareness. Morrison realized that while his excesses may have bought him a liberating wisdom, they also led him to foolish self parody and waste. Many fine potes have learned less by the time they turned twenty-seven, the age at which Morrison died.
Morrison had essentially two subjects: himself and America. He sometimes confused them, and he loved and loathed them both. This selection from Wilderness traces the progress of the relationship.
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Rolling Stone Issue No. 536
October 6 1988
Pre-amble Text By Unknown Author
Jim Morrison used writing the way a less literate generation of rock stars has used video cameras: as a means of charting the strange and perilous journey of a private person through the public world.
Morrison wrote incessantly throughout his life, and though he was deeply interested in filmmaking, he understood the power that writing grants - the power the writer possesses to be both the observed and the observer, to be both a documenter and a critic.
Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1 collects more than 200 pages of Morrison's autobiographical chronicle. Much of it is fragmentary, and some of it has appeared elsewhere in other forms, as lyrics or as parts of previously published works. The quality varies, though Morrison's writing is always revealing and always intriguing. At it's best, Morrison's work displays all the poet's skills. It has voice and vision. It draws on a tradition of romantic poetry that encompasses Morrison great idiol, William Blake, French symobolists like Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the apocalyptic mysticism of William Butler Yeats and shamanistic fury and simultaneous cool of the beats.
For all their purgative violence, sexuality and mythic force, the poems also show a touching self awareness. Morrison realized that while his excesses may have bought him a liberating wisdom, they also led him to foolish self parody and waste. Many fine potes have learned less by the time they turned twenty-seven, the age at which Morrison died.
Morrison had essentially two subjects: himself and America. He sometimes confused them, and he loved and loathed them both. This selection from Wilderness traces the progress of the relationship.
END.