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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