in light of Jim's
Death Day:
"The
summer of 1967 was a period of traveling from coast to
coast, trying to make it in New York. In July, "Light My
Fire" hit first place on the charts, and the Doors began
making plans for new engagements. This was to be their way
for the next few years. They were well known in New York
because of the favorable reviews given to the album by the
New York Times, Newsweek and Vogue. Time magazine quoted a
statement of Jim's which had been used in Elektra
Records-New York biography as in Stone's film: "I'm
interested in anything about revolt, disorder, and chaos."
These are the words of Rimbaud, Artaud (Theater of
Cruelty), and possibly Lautre`amont."
page 78
of Rebel as Poet: Rimbaud of Jim Morrison
by
Wallace Fowlie - Duke University Press 1993
"Since
Jim Morrison's death, his fans in France and those fans
from other countries who live in Paris remember, more than
the accounts of his death, his interest in Paris. There,
in his last two years, he seemed to begin a new phase of
his life, a phase that was gradually to be destroyed bu
alcoholism. It would seem in Paris Jim was trying to shake
off his fame, his identity as a rockstar. His drive was
toward the creation of poetry, in a city where he was able
to evoke Baudelaire and Rimbaud. When the address of his
apartment was learned, the fans visited the rue
Beautrellis but did not mark the large doors that open at
number 17."
page 98
of Rebel as Poet: Rimbaud of Jim Morrison
by
Wallace Fowlie - Duke University Press 1993
in 1996
Wallace Fowlie inscribed "Our Friendship Began Here" in a
copy of Rebel as Poet: Rimbaud of Jim Morrison for John
Alan Conte` JR in North Carolina at Fowlie’s home in Carl
Woods outside of Chappell Hill.
Fowlie
told Conte` that in the poetry that Conte` read for him he
could see he possessed the ability to fire off history
like Whitman, the sexual imagery of Henry Miller and the
navigational skills of Jim Morrison.
Almost a decade
later Conte` is almost finished w/ his ninth (9th)
book entitled “Everyday Media” -
http://www.mystrawhat.com
