The Poet in Exile Author:Ray Manzarek With the publication of this stunning book, Ray Manzarek -- keyboardist for the Doors -- fulfills a vow of friendship and adds an astonishing, unexpected chapter to the legend of the Doors. Is the lead singer of America's most notorious rock and roll band really buried in Paris? Years after the Poet's apparent death, his longtime musical collabo... more »rator and friend Ray receives the first of several mysterious postcards bearing cryptic verse, signed only J. Trusting his instinct that this is not a hoax, Ray traces the cards to their apparent source--a remote island in the Indian Ocean. There, to his amazement, he is re-united with the man once known as the snake man, and hears the remarkable story of his faked death--and the re-birth it made possible. Dramatically abandoning his self-destructive life as a rock God, J had managed to disappear and undertake a private journey to the East. After years of rigorous study and meditation in India, he returned to his island hideaway and settled down. A happily married man, the father of two children, he had discovered the secret to life and was finally free of the demons that had driven him headlong through the American night. And yet there was a pile of notebooks and manuscripts--and an enticing question: Would destiny smile upon the re-launch of one of the most influential rock and roll bands in history?« less