The American Night

"If the first poets were singers, Jim Morrison brought poetry back to its roots, unscrolling an extended song of rootlessness, violence, and Dionysian sensuality on record, in concert, and in his private notebooks. Like the earlier volume, Wilderness, The American Night presents Morrison's previously unpublished writings in their truest form. The book includes the complete text of the legendary performance pieces "An American Prayer", "Celebration of the Lizard", and "The Soft Parade"; the lyrics to such songs as "Moonlight Drive", "Soul Kitchen", and "The End"; a tantalizing excerpt from an unproduced screenplay called "The Hitchhiker"' and poems culled from Morrison's journals. With their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of feeling, these works are the unmistakable products of their author's great, wild voice and heart"--P. [4] of cover.… (more)