An American Prayer Jim Morrison. Self-published by Morrison in the summer of 1970 with only 500 copies printed by Western Lithographers (Los Angeles), the poems are mostly short and succinct. Do you know the warm progress under the stars? It is a brilliant melding of the band's music with Jim's poetry and stories, but you must have earned your Doors undergraduate degree first to fully appreciate it. I can't believe long-time Doors producer, Paul Rothchild, called this album "the rape of Jim Morrison"! Moody and mesmerizing, An American Prayer is an interesting album of Jim Morrison reading his poetry over the Doors' music. An American Prayer Lyrics. An American Prayer was finished by the remaining members of the Doors after Morrison's death and finally released in 1978 (it was remastered and re-released in 1995 with bonus tracks). Anyway, back to my review of An American Prayer. Produced by Frank Lisciandro, John Haeny & The Doors. Album An American Prayer. A 40-page small red leather-bound book of poetry with embossed gilt lettering on the cover reading An American Prayer/Jim Morrison. He couldn't be more wrong!