Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
- The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 1: Wilderness
- The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 2
Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
When these were first released, after protracted legal battles, as I recall? I had first editions of both. One copy I had heavily annotated, notes to myself, interesting passages, and looking back? I’m unsure where they got lost. These days, I have a very small poetry shelf, having let go of numerous texts with the exceptions being some Allen Ginsberg, Ray Wylie, Joe Ely, and Marge Piercy: Beats, proto-beats, and miscellaneous modern, possibly post-modern. Post-punk, post-modern.
Can’t recall what, maybe a Doors video online, or something? But whatever it was, the thought was first, “Why did I get rid of those books,” then, “where can I find a copy?” A digital copy would’ve been fine, but Half-Price Books turned up with some copies, and less expensive than any other outlet. That works.
Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
- The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 1: Wilderness
- The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 2
Within an hour of picking these up at Half-Price Books, I was busy texting an image of a page to a fishing buddy, looking for the literary allusion (November Sagittarius).
Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
“Now listen to this:
I’ll tell you about
Texas Radio & the Big Beat
Soft driven slow & mad
like some new language”
(Now listen to this, © The Doors, 1971)
- The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 1: Wilderness
- The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 2
Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
It’s merely an example of a passage, the notebooks themselves must’ve been widely scattered.
Makes for very interesting reading, sort of deep, maybe skates the liminal zone between the real world and fantasy land?
Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
- The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 1: Wilderness
- The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 2
Jim Morrison’s Notebooks
Where The Doors got their name.
