The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics Hardcover – Notebook, June 8, 2021

Great book. Thick paper used and the hardcover version seems to be made to last. A lot of great material included

A huge and VERY heavy coffee table book…really well made! Wow! First edition! Wow!

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.

Fabulous book much bigger than I expected. Good packaging good shipping very. All of Morrisons works.

This book is an absolute MUST for any fan of Jim Morrison. Don't even ask whether you need another book about the man, because this is THE book we've been waiting for for half a century.For those of us who can't get enough of the divine presence and mystery that was Jim Morrison, we now have everything we need to understand the depths of his mind: His own journals, in his own writing. All of his available poetry. His unrealized screenplay for a film. Childhood photographs never seen before. A deep look into a soul whose capabilities we can never truly know, because it was taken from us far too soon. It's a bit fragmented/fragmentary due to the nature of collecting all the bits of writing, but then Jim's short life and attentions always seemed to be fragmented too, so it fits.This is a big, beautiful book, so respectful to the human being who wrote it. If you think you've seen every photo of Jim, the shots included here will really surprise you. If you are a fan of his writing, you'll see plenty here you've never read before, though it's not really cohesive because he never had a chance to flesh out the "Plan for Book" that he wrote out. But his dear friend and co-conspirator Frank Lisciandro and Jim's sister Anne have contributed to this volume, which is respectful and mature, a far cry from the image of the sloppy-drunk "Lizard King" portrayed in the Doors movie and in popular culture.In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1969, Jim was asked, “Do you see yourself going more toward print?” He answered, “That’s my greatest hope. That’s always been my dream.” It's a shame it took this long to put together a definitive version of his writings, but I'm glad it finally happened.One quibble: I suspect Jim would not have been happy with the huge picture of his face on the front cover. The works he self-published during his lifetime had very plain covers and credited him as "James Douglas Morrison." But it makes sense to use his better-known name and image. I think he'd be happy to know his writings were reaching so many people.

I recognized something in Jim, thru his legacy on this Earth, when I was merely 10 years old, which, many decades later clarified into words my verbal mind could understand: He is an enlightened being of a particular kind- a wrathful Buddha. Its why he continues to move people, after his body is no longer directly accessible. When I first encountered him, his eyes alone, from a Rolling Stone cover, it blew wide open the bars of the cage that held my soul and no-one or no-thing could corral it again. In Buddhism, we know this as an empowerment. A transmission. The biography, “No one here gets out alive” provided a roadmap out of the Matrix, through careful listing of all the authors, poets, philosophers, filmmakers, figures, etc that influenced Jim. I read them all and by the time adolescence hit me, “That’s all, folks!” No mere normie could I ever be. I followed a spiritual path, one that nos lets me see how special that was. Jim Morrison as Guru. After death. Freaking cosmic. This book confirms for me how Morrison’s brilliance came from his soul, not just his beautiful face. He’s an enlightened being, whose essence never dies. The potency of his words, full of mystical vigor, are on display here. Those who put this together understand the special task they are entrusted with. Their reverence for him is clear. Thank you! Liberate yourself from the shell called “reality”, aka Samsara., NOW! Long live the Lizard King!