Which book is it?

Question

In this interview:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NkGRC5EL7gw&feature=related
during the end john reads from a book of poems.
i was wondering which book it was and if you would recommend any written by the beatles or john lennon. Thanks a bunch!

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure, based on the time period the clip is from, that the book was his own first published one, 'In His Own Write'. It was a collection of poems and short stories, many seemingly nonsensical, but they give tremendous insight into Lennon's creative process as a songwriter. Puns and other wordplay, word associations, purposeful misspellings and outright 'stream of consciousness' provided a hint of things to come in later Beatles songs. His second book, 'A Spaniard in the Works' I found even more bizarre.

It may not come across as the best stuff as read on the printed page, but it sure worked in classics like 'I Am the Walrus".

Answer 2

I don't know what he was reading out of in this clip, but I know a pretty good book of poems and short stories John wrote called:In His Own Write.