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[Jim Abbott]

We know Jim as a poet and many know him as another force to be reckon with and some people just do not care. As my viewpoint Jim's poetry ranks up as some of the best works of the 20th century. Does any one know if his poems are being taught in any school level that could learn and expand on his emotions. Some one could get a petition together to have his work studied at UCLA, if you take Jim as being a real poet.

[Jim Abbott]

why not create a text book out of al Jim's poetry, lyrics and brilliant comments with interpretations, footnotes, photos of original scripts. Of course it would cost money to make this collection of poems, but, the market is strong for this poet to be mainstreamed in the literary world of Poetry. Of course with a CD version accompanying it with Johnny Depp filling in where there is a lack of vocal attention. Instead of just talking about how Jim is a poet....put out the compulation to the poetic literary critics....You, :)I and The doors.

[Jim Abbott]

You know every interview I heard Jim on and college would come up and he would be totally be proud of it...that's where the new poet of the 21st century are at...in the universities being studied...get on the Ball!

[Shebang]

There used to be a Jim Morrison poetry class taught at Duke University.  The professor Wallace Fowlie wrote the following book:

http://search.barnes...e/9780822314455

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Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel As Poet
by Wallace Fowlie

Fowlie, a leading translator of Arthur Rimbaud and professor emeritus of French literature at Duke, here attempts to trace the aesthetic affinities between the French symbolist poet and '60s rock icon and Doors lead singer, Jim Morrison. Fowlie contends that both Rimbaud, the iconoclastic young poet who at the age of 20 forsook poetry for a peripatetic life as a merchant-adventurer and Morrison, the macho, nihilistic, self-styled shaman of late-'60s acid rock, refigure the boyish archetypes of the clown and the rebel; for Fowlie, both were restive, bohemian, visionary poets who attained an extraordinary, posthumous mythical status. He prefaces his readings of Rimbaud's and Morrison's ``poetry'' with a brief memoir stressing his pedagogical aims: to recruit readers of French poetry among jaded kids who can only deal with high culture in the context of familiar pop cultural icons. Missing from this study, however, is a critical perspective of the tawdrier aspects of Morrison's fame, which sprang, in part, from his talent for turning avant-garde and multicultural tropes into psychedelic cliches. Fowlie's style is lucid and highly personal, if humorless. Readers who are not fans of the Doors may roll their eyes at Fowlie's earnest attempts to explicate their lyrics in terms of Nietzsche, Antonin Artaud and ancient mythology.

[Jim Abbott]

Jim's work is crucial to the 20th century awakening of the 60's-70' era. All his work should be maintained in more than one collegiate book by one author, seems like no one dares to touch the his words :lol:except for shebang's thread on Jim's lyrics.