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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
3.5! I found this collection in a second hand bookstore and read it on a flight back to Vancouver. I wanted to give this 4 stars, but I feel I’d be giving it a generous score based on my love for The Doors music.
As a poetry collection it’s good, but not great. It makes sense these were forgotten writings that Morrison didn’t publish himself but were brought to light by friends who have the collections of his notebooks. Some of the writing is brilliant and poignant, some of it is confusing and hard to understand. The parts I liked the most were when I got snippets of lyrics, song titles, or other references to Morrisons musical career.
The poetry itself is interesting enough. I’m more familiar with poets who have tight control of rhythm, meter, and rhyme scheme. Poets such as Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, and Mary Oliver. These poems are completely different, yet still don’t hit closer to the beat poetry of someone like Bukowski. This divergence from the poets I’ve read makes the collection refreshing. Morrison is either drawing his inspiration from a poet I haven’t yet read, or making his own rules up entirely.
To me, this is a collection to be read by an avid fan of The Doors or Jim Morrison. It helps paint a picture of his more private writings and thoughts. Otherwise read the poetry collection he published himself while alive.
As a poetry collection it’s good, but not great. It makes sense these were forgotten writings that Morrison didn’t publish himself but were brought to light by friends who have the collections of his notebooks. Some of the writing is brilliant and poignant, some of it is confusing and hard to understand. The parts I liked the most were when I got snippets of lyrics, song titles, or other references to Morrisons musical career.
The poetry itself is interesting enough. I’m more familiar with poets who have tight control of rhythm, meter, and rhyme scheme. Poets such as Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, and Mary Oliver. These poems are completely different, yet still don’t hit closer to the beat poetry of someone like Bukowski. This divergence from the poets I’ve read makes the collection refreshing. Morrison is either drawing his inspiration from a poet I haven’t yet read, or making his own rules up entirely.
To me, this is a collection to be read by an avid fan of The Doors or Jim Morrison. It helps paint a picture of his more private writings and thoughts. Otherwise read the poetry collection he published himself while alive.
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
emotional
funny
slow-paced
Considering how very much I admire his song lyrics, the poems were a bit of a disappointment.
"(...) No one can remember an entire novel. No one can describe a film, a piece of sculpture, a painting, but so long as there are human beings, songs and poetry can continue. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
