A political magnum opus of lexicon splendor: | The Lords and The New Creatures: Poems

way over my head | The Lords and The New Creatures: Poems | James d. morrison

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	• The Lords and The New Creatures: Poems James d. morrison Simon & Schuster, 1970 - 141 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Cool Book.

Being a Morrison fan I just had to have it. It was in decent shape for being 36 yo.

A political magnum opus of lexicon splendor:

Morrison was indeed the William Blake of his day. His poems come across like the proverbial Quodlibet; promulgating a cognitive catharsis with visceral overtones that in many ways has an affect on the soul. Like many other poets such as Langston Hughes, Morrison goes for the jugular, and holds back nothing. His commentaries on sex, politics, and social injustice are on par with today's civil rights movement and conspiracy theories abound.
A case in point: On page 19 Jim writes:

Modern circles of Hell: Oswald (?) kills President.
Oswald enters taxi. Oswald stops at rooming house.
Oswald leaves taxi. Oswald kills Officer Tippitt.
Oswald shed jacket. Oswald is captured.

He escaped into a movie house.

Reading into this it's plain to see that Jim thought the Kennedy assassination was an inside job. What Jim was saying was that the official story didn't add up. Take a look at the question mark after Lee Harvey Oswald's name.
Furthermore, on page 123 Jim writes:

The Assassin's bullet
Marries the King
Dissembling miles of air
To kiss the crown.
The Prince rambles in blood.
Ode to the neck
That was groomed
For rape's gown.

If you start reading from pages 116 to 123 it becomes painfully obvious that Jim was writing about the Watt's riot of August 13, 1965 and the black civil rights movement. The poem on page 123 seems to be in reference to the Martin Luther King Assassination.

There is one more passage that needs to be sighted.
On page 112 Jim writes:

Fear the Lords who are secret among us.
The Lords are w/ in us.
Born of sloth & cowardice.

Question?
Could Jim have been referring to the New World Order? It's something to think about, but I will say this; "The Lords and the New Creatures" is the most thought provoking collection of poems you'll ever read. Jim's lexicon about the world we live in is extremely oblique, but in the last page Jim ends his cri de coeur on a quixotic yet hopeful note.

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way over my head

maybe its because when i took lsd i didnt read this book is the reason why i dont understand it. i have all three morrison poetry books an this by far is the weakest, its seems to me to be just a whole bunch of imagery tied together with no real meaning or direction. if you want imagery poetry done right read rimbaud. If you want good morrison poetry read wilderness vol 1 an 2 especially an american prayer, where it seems to me that jim found some real direction and meaning in his poetry.

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strange but decent

this is for a die hard fan of the jim he was the poet song writer and ppl just don get what hes saying half the time this book is styrange the poems are sshort alot of space all in all this book is good

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Intense, erotic, and enigmatic, Jim Morrison's persona is as riveting now as the lead singer/composer "Lizard King" was during The Doors' peak in the late sixties. His fast life and mysterious death remain controversial more than twenty years later.

The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison's first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society's dark side -- drugs, sex, fame, and death -- captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left their indelible impression on our culture.

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