Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison's persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer "Lizard King" was during The Doors' peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial more than twenty years later.

The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison's first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society's dark side -- drugs, sex, fame, and death -- captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left their indelible impression on our culture.

reserved as a surprise for a fellow bcer.

going into the post tomorrow as an extra surprise for cathyinoz.

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Look what showed up in my letterbox today!

Many, many thanks gypsyrose02. We are on a bit of a poetry binge in our writing group at the moment and its flaring out into my reading. I wonder why poetry went so out of fashion. so much quicker to read than some of the 'bricks' that are being published at the moment, can be just as powerful and fit into your bag for mobility.

Loved Jim Morrison's songwriting abilities, very much looking forward to reading his poetry. In fact I think I will just slip this one into my bag now as I'm off to pick up the kids.

The title doesn't make this clear but there are two collections of Morrison's poetry in one book. The first, "The Lords" is subtitled 'Notes on Vision'. It is an exploration and many are indeed his notes on Man's fascination with watching things - film, puppet shows, voyeurism. It is interesting to see how learned he was. He took notes on the origins of magic lantern shows, ventriloquism, phantasmagoria, seances. Very telling given that he was a spectacle/show as much as any of the diversions he contemplated. He obviously knew and manipulated this.

This piece struck me as having particularly strong parallels --

"In the seance, the shaman led. A sensuous panic, deliberately evoked through drugs, chants, dancing, hurls the shaman into trance. Changed voice, convulsive movement. He acts like a madman. These professional hysterics, chosen precisely for their psychotic leaning, were once esteemed. They mediated between man and spirit-world. Their mental travels formed the crux of the religious life of the tribe."

I also was interested in this observation --
"The happening/the event in which ether is introduced into a room full of people through air vents makes the chemical an actor. It's agent, or injector, is an artist-showman who creates a performance to witness himself. The people consider themselves audience, while they perform for each other, and the gas acts out poems of its own through the medium of the human body. This approaches the psychology of the orgy while remaining in the realm of the Game and its infinite permutations."

What an insight into a dark, strange and intelligent man.

The second collection are intimate, carnal poems dedicated to his partner Pamela Susan Courson. She apparently felt that his time as a member of the Doors took him away from his true calling as a poet. If someone wrote disturbing poems like this for me, I would be scared, very scared!

What a fantastic collection that gives us a look at the vast darkness that was Jim Morrison. Thanks gypsyrose02 for sharing this very special book.

posted to aussieangel2 today

Accepted on Reading Festival Relay and received in the mail today.

RELEASE NOTES:

Accepted on Two Days or Replace Relay by livrecache and posted today.

Thanks aussieangel2.

My son will think this book is just too cool! I can't believe it. The Doors were before my time (although I certainly like them), but my son and his peers are right into them.

Thanks once again.

Helen