Exploring the genius of the prolific songwriter and lead singer of the sixties band the Doors, The American Night is the second volume of Jim Morrison's poetry and writings.
Here, culled from the journals, notebooks and typescripts left in the care of his wife Pamela at the time of his death in Paris in 1971, are writings that reflect the kaleidoscopic hopes and dreams, excitement and fears that captured the spirit of a generation. But in his poetry Morrison also unleashed the outrage he felt at the moral chaos around him, and the result, a bold, defant and passionate torrent of words, confirms his overwhelming stature as an artist not only of the sixties but of all ages.