Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison: Volume I

Morrison, Jim

Published by Villard Books, New York, 1988

Fine condition grey boards/black cloth spine with silver spine lettering, contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Afterword, Index of First Lines to Poems, and illustrated with black-and-white photographs and added photographs of Morrison's actual handwritten original poems. 2nd Printing. "If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel." - Jim Morrison (Wilderness does just that. "Wilderness is an extraordinary body of work, an important event in the history of literature and of rock 'n' roll. The events behind this publication are as extraordinary as the material itself. Morrison willed his writings to his wife, Pamela Courson. Pamela died in 1974, two years and seven months after Jim's tragic death in Paris. The rights to the estate were finally settled in 1980. Since then, Pamela's parents, Corky and Pearl Marie Courson, have been working with the two people who know Jim Morrison's work - and Jim Morrison - better than anyone, Frank and Kathy Lisciandro. Frank Lisciandro was Jim's closest friend; his wife, Kathy, was Jim's secretary during The Doors years. It has taken this long for the unveiling of Wilderness because, quite simply, it could not have been done any sooner. The Lisciandros and Coursons have been sorting through, studying and deciphering more than sixteen hundred pages of notes, notebook pages and diary entries left by Jim Morrison. One poem, "The American Night," had more than fifty different versions. At long last, the selections have been made. They represent an astonishing range from the wild rantings of a young iconoclast to the brilliant lyricism of an important and mature poet; from painfully insightful autobiographical writings to startling observations of the world around us. There is even a remarkable introduction, by Jim himself, written years ago in preparation for the day his work would be collected and published. The Coursons and Lisciandros have provided facsimile pages from Morrison's diaries as well as never-before-seen photos of Jim. This book is Jim Morrison's. In his words.". Seller Inventory # 003166

Bibliographic Details

Title: Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim ...
Publisher: Villard Books, New York
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition