The American Night - Jim Morrison

I have read Jim Morrison's The American Night before & am now buying it just to prove the point that rock music ruins real poetical talent. Morrison's American Night, just like Morrison's Wilderness, demonstrates a sense of poet-being completely detached from the real poets of the 1960s/early 1970s. Much of the poems are barren of depth, thereby appealing perhaps to folks who do not relish the concept of poetry being 'full of meaning'. Most of the poems deal in such blunt language as to prove the genius of Beat Poets such as Allan Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac & Black Mountain poets such as Gary Snyder to be so much more powerful & real. Indeed, ...  Read the complete review