The American Night reads like a ledger of a mind habitually on the verge: on the verge of revelation, of collapse, of translation from flesh to myth. Volume 2 of these “lost writings” collects material that refuses the safe categories of “poetry,” “memoir,” or “manifesto.” Instead it offers a hybrid text — lyric fragments, dramatic … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The American Night: The Lost Writings Vol. 2 by Jim Morrison
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wilderness: The Lost Writings Vol. 1 by Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison’s Wilderness reads like the private notebook of a performative prophet: half-oracular lyric, half-fractured meditation, constantly shifting between erotic delirium and cold metaphysical curiosity. As a volume of “lost writings” drawn from a celebrity-poet whose musical persona already blurred the line between poet and performer, Wilderness asks a reader to do two things at … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wilderness: The Lost Writings Vol. 1 by Jim Morrison
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Lords and The New Creatures by Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison’s The Lords and The New Creatures arrives at the reader like a recorded improvisation—uneven, urgent, and saturated with moments of startling clarity. Originally assembled from two short volumes first issued in the late 1960s, the text functions less as a conventional poetic sequence than as a series of charged tableaux: flashes of eroticism, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Lords and The New Creatures by Jim Morrison
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Riders of the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors. by John Densmore
John Densmore’s Riders of the Storm is at once an intimate memoir and a corrective history: part loving excavation of a band’s inner life, part juridical record of what fame does to art and friendship. Written by the Doors’ drummer, the book performs a delicate double move — it insists on the primacy of the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Riders of the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors. by John Densmore
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman’s No One Here Gets Out Alive is less a dispassionate life-history than a rite of remembrance: a fevered, piecemeal canonization of Jim Morrison that helped turn an already mythic rock singer into a modern Prometheus of American pop-culture. First published in 1980, the book occupies a peculiar position between popular … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
The New Renaissance Mindset 