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Smith tracks down Simone Weil's grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano's novels. 16”. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. A bright US first edition, first impression. All seeking an emptiness to imbue with words. Proust his shuttered windows. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. Year: 2018 Her memoir Just Kids received a National Book Award, and her recent book M Train is a critically acclaimed New York Times best-seller. 'Why Patti Smith Matters' contextualizes Smith's creative work, her influence and her wide-ranging and still-evolving impact on rock and roll, visual art and the written word.
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Dorian Gray
Patti Smith - the Bad Girl of Rock who became its High Priestess - has always been an accomplished writer , producing as many poems as songs, as many books as albums. Ideas often made beautifully concrete by carefully chosen images/photographs + depictions of events, characters, moods + feelings. Her Devotion is not just to writing but to the departed : her family, friends, lovers, dead Gods + dead Goddesses. Suffice to say I for one will be re-reading this book again + again coz of the writing.
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And the answer is given in a single sentence . I like that it fits in my back pocket and color coded by neighborhood Its the last sentence of the book so I wont give it away ! Made up of only 5 words.
In Devotion she tries to answer the question : why do I write ? As well as being entertained (wonderfully) U are also informed. And here's the thing about any great writer. Consider this sentence : It occurs to me that the young look beautiful as they sleep and the old, such as myself, look dead .
Utterly enchanting : poetry as prose. Short , sharp sentences.
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