Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1 by Jim Morrison Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1
Book Review: Two Great Minds-a must read
Summary: 5 Stars
I just Had to say that Jim Morrison and Decheonbae Jones is just a like With great deep poetic talent This book had me on the edge of my seat-the constant turning of pages, and the art of self brillance. Simply putting it you have to get Pearls of Justice and Wilderness to even feel like you have a complete set of rare GEMS by men who saw life trully different and classic. I will be searching for books by both authors and will enjoy every minute as time go by!Book Review: A Book of our Generation
Summary: 4 Stars
Jim's words have always reached out and touched me and I have always understood them. These poems have uniquely devised a way into our minds to speculate ways of thinking and that was the one thing Jim wanted. Freedom. Freedom for the people of his generation and those still to come to understand there are ways to think other than those of our scholastic ways of learning.Book Review: Une Enfant Savant et Voyant
Summary: 5 Stars
... I think Morrison is very finely accomplished, marginalized, misused, and credits more serious scholarship. Nothing said in his music is not here, and better, with Wilderness: the fascination with individual existence (and sex) threatened by modern urban life and (political) death; ritual initiations into or "intimations" of the sense of free grace; experience as a series of sensations impressed in briefly intensified moments; the vulnerability of innocence and simplicity (children, animals, minorities); the enchantment of single words; reality as an accumulation of personal obsessions, might start my list. The diction, rhythm, careful measuring of textual interplays against pauses or transitions, and self-conscious modulations and inflections give his works the charm and the impression of an almost (although often vulgar) eloquence of fin-de-siecle or decadent authors played contrapuntally against the sceptical remove of English Modernists, drawing mainly from French Naturalists. Many of Morrison's poems have the effect of film-clips in an avant-garde cinema, of absorbed intellectualism reflecting self-referentially on multi-media aesthetics. His descriptive powers are best when most abstractly evocative, as in lines under "Airport" on Vietnam and post-war oppression reading "A truth too horrible to name / Only a loose puking moan / could frame its dark interiors [...] under its dull friendly terror." Or in his historical recounting of electric pop music's impact on American youth in "The Anatomy of Rock" where Morrison sets his atmosphere producing line "The climate altered like a / visible dance." Quite a few idiosyncratic interests and characteristic purposes could be discussed here. Quotes from Rimbaud and Blake, allusions to arcane physiological theories and post-modern philosophies conduce to the speculative testing of the dimensions-and-bounds-of-reality feeling pervasive of everything recorded by Morrison. His real originality resides in the sociological and anthropological ethnologies and mythologies, as well as the amorous, glamorous use of unusual words, sparse (semi-parsed)syntax, and graphically arranged composition. The piece beginning "Sirens" and the other triggered with the word "disciple" are completely unique in their Joyce-telegraphs-Mallarme style. Morrison was the first to bring me as a newly turned teen from Edgar Poe in the bookstore to Baudelaire and Rimbaud. His drunk and drug-addict legends should not obstruct his ideas from being relayed or his feelings read. Morrison introduces connections capable of leading you to the last "doors of perception" where Kafka's guards momentarily step outside, leaving you free to enter as you wish.Book Review: Wilderness~writings of a rock star/poet
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had the book Wilderness for many y ears now and I simply love it. Not only was Jim a rock star, but he was a magnificent poet. I have read some reviews where they said you had to be a drugged out loser in order to understand his poetry, which is so very NOT true. There are many different types of people who love Morrison's poetry, and you don't have to high to read it and understand where this man was coming from. It came from deep personal feelings. I find that amazing, when a person can share the happenenings surrounding his life with the rest of the world. Not too many people have this gift, and I admire Jim Morrison very much for sharing his life, music and beautiful words with us. I will cherish his writings for eternity.Book Review: Heartfelt Utterings from a Rebel
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read Wilderness and was quite moved by it. Not only is JDM a wonderful poet, but he is not afraid to go against tradition and write the way he truly feels. His poetry is deep and expresses many inner feelings we all have but are scared to reveal. In his poetry lies the seeds of greatness, rebellion and mystery. Some say Jim was pretentious, others a geniuis, one sure sign he knows what he is doing. Jim was a brilliant man to me because he wasn't afraid to take chances. I love his poetry and I think wherever there are people who are brave enough to express their true feelings, his work will live on. I love Jim Morrison, a truly great man and an angel. ---Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we once had shoulders smooth as raven's claw. JDM