”Īccordingly, “The Collected Works” features a trove of previously unpublished material. “The shy loner who was my classmate at the UCLA School of Film the rock performer who was always raising the stakes on what was culturally acceptable the lyricist, poet and writer who surprised me with notebook pages of complex poems and gifts of self-published books. “I knew several Jims,” Lisciandro writes in his introduction. She devoted years to compiling and guiding this comprehensive new book, which includes a foreword by novelist Tom Robbins and an introduction by Frank Lisciandro, Morrison’s close friend and collaborator. And I was worried! Because I thought he would never make enough money as a poet to get by.”Ĭhewning, who wrote the prologue for “The Collected Works,” is the co-executor of her late brother’s personal estate. “I thought Jim would be a poet, like one of the Beat poets in San Francisco.

He was always writing poetry and wanted to go into film,” said his sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, speaking from her home near Santa Barbara. “Getting to be in a band was kind of an accident for Jim because he didn’t set out to be a singer. That point is repeatedly emphasized in “The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts and Lyrics,” a massive, nearly 600-page book that will be published Tuesday, June 8 by HarperCollins.

Yet, while his six-year tenure as the deep-voiced front man in The Doors created a quintessential template for brooding, bad-boy rock singers clad in leather and oozing primal sex appeal, musical stardom was most assuredly not this former San Diegan’s goal. Few rock ‘n’ roll legends have had as enduring an impact on multiple generations as Jim Morrison, whose death 50 years ago next month at 27 made him an even bigger cultural icon than when he was alive.

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