American Night is a collection of poetry by Jim Morrison, front-man for the 1960s psychedelic rock group, The Doors, published in 1990 (after his death in 1971). The title is eponymous with a poem that appears on the album American Prayer, itself a collection of spoken word and musical vignettes released in 1978. The book consists of his theories on night.
The book is a follow-up to Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison (which was published in 1988).
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“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“Why must it always end this way?
A dais with woman reading, with the ruckus of her hair
And all that is unsaid about her pulling us back to her, with her
Into the silence that night alone can’t explain.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)