Patti Smith Livres

C'était l'été de la mort de Coltrane, l'été de l'amour et des émeutes, quand une rencontre fortuite à Brooklyn guida deux jeunes gens dans la vie de bohème, sur la voie de l'art. Patti Smith et Robert Mapplethorpe avaient vingt ans ; elle deviendrait poète et performeuse, il serait photographe. A cette époque d'intense créativité, les univers de la poésie, du rock and roll et du sexe s'entrechoquent. Le couple fréquente la cour d'Andy Warhol, intègre au Chelsea Hotel une communauté d'artistes et de marginaux hauts en couleur, croise Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed... Just Kids commence comme une histoire d'amour et finit comme une élégie, brossant un inoubliable instantané du New York des années 1960-1970. Avec pudeur et émotion, Patti Smith retrace l'ascension de deux gamins inséparables qui insufflèrent à leur vie la même énergie qu'à leur art.

Patti Smith a qualifié ce livre de carte de mon existence. En dix-huit stations, elle nous entraîne dans un voyage qui traverse le paysage de ses aspirations et de son inspiration, par le prisme des cafés et autres lieux qu'elle a visités de par le globe. M Train débute au 'Ino, le petit bar de Greenwich Village ou elle va chaque matin boire son café noir, méditer sur le monde tel qu'il est ou tel qu'il fut, et écrire dans son carnet. En passant par la Casa Azul de Frida Kahlo dans la banlieue de Mexico, par les tombes de Genet, Rimbaud, Mishima, ou encore par un bungalow délabré en bord de mer, a New York, qu'elle a acheté juste avant le passage dévastateur de l'ouragan Sandy, Patti Smith nous propose un itinéraire flottant au coeur de ses références (on croise Murakami, Blake, Bolano, Sebald, Burroughs...) et des événements de sa vie. Ecrit dans une prose fluide et subtile qui oscille entre reve et réalité, passé et présent, évocations de son engagement artistique et de la perte tragique de son mari - le guitariste Fred Sonic Smith -, M Train est une réflexion sur le deuil et l'espoir, le passage du temps et le souvenir, la création, les séries policieres, la littérature, le café... Apres Glaneurs de reves (Gallimard, 2014), Patti Smith nous propose un nouveau livre inclassable, profondément sensible et sincere, illustré par les photographies en noir et blanc qu'elle prend depuis toujours, et qui confirme qu'elle est l'une des artistes actuelles les plus singulieres et indépendantes...

C'est une histoire d'obsession qui anime Patti Smith. Une obsession créatrice, que l'on retrouve sous différentes formes dans cet ouvrage tres personnel. De passage a Paris, l'artiste observe tout et absorbe tout. A la maniere d'un journal intime, elle retranscrit ses impressions qui viendront nourrir Dévotion, la nouvelle qui compose le coeur du livre et lui donne son titre. C'est en quittant la capitale a bord d'un train que l'inspiration la saisit. L'histoire d'une jeune fille et de son obsession pour le patin a glace ; celle d'un homme a l'intelligence cruelle, obnubilé par sa quete d'objets précieux. L'oeuf au plat parfaitement rond du café de Flore ou elle a pris son petit déjeuner la veille se transforme alors en étang gelé. L'esprit libre de Simone Weil dont elle a recherché la tombe quelques jours plus tôt se réincarne dans l'énigmatique personnage d'Eugenia. Dans ce conte poétique et glaçant, Patti Smith revisite le Faust de Goethe au féminin. Enfin, l'auteur acheve son voyage en se rendant dans la maison familiale d'Albert Camus, ou elle est autorisée a parcourir le manuscrit inachevé du Premier Homme, la rapprochant un instant de l'un de ses grands modeles. Un aperçu émouvant de son processus d'écriture mais aussi une réflexion sur ce qui la pousse a écrire, encore et toujours.

Nur auf den ersten Blick irritierend: Wie bei seinen schwarzweißen Akten und Portraits ging es Mapplethorpe auch bei den Blumen um die perfekt stilisierte Pose, die absolute Klarheit der Komposition und das erotische Drama. Unseren 1990, ein Jahr nach seinem Tod erschienenen Band, der – auch das untypisch – ausschließlich Farbaufnahmen enthält, bieten wir jetzt als gebundene Sonderausgabe wieder an.

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message Hello Everybody! Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she's reading, the graves of beloved heroes - William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith's unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, and a husband's Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are never-before-seen photos of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafes, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world. With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful - and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process - A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist's life.

Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats. Willow, Popple, and their progeny begin the night's work of dam repair, scent marking, tree felling until a soft call alerts them to the arrival of the strange honorary member of their clan, this book's author, Patti Smith. They scramble ashore and poke eagerly about her feet as she prepares to picnic and to record the events that transpire on the shores of Popple's Pond

HORSES Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) Redondo Beach Birdland Free Money Kimberly Fire of Unknown Origin Break It Up Land Elegie RADIO ETHIOPIA Ask the Angels Ain't It Strange Poppies Pissing in a River Pumping (My Heart) Distant Fingers Chiklets Radio Ethiopia/Abyssinia EASTER Till Victory Space Monkey Because the Night Ghost Dance Babelogue Rock n Roll Nigger We Three 25th Floor High on Rebellion Godspeed Easter WAVE Frederick Dancing Barefoot Revenge Citizen Ship Seven Ways of Going Broken Flag Wave Hymn DREAM OF LIFE People Have the Power Up There Down There Paths That Cross Somalia Wild Leaves Dream of Life It Takes Time Where Duty Calls Going Under As the Night Goes By Looking for You (I Was) The Jackson Song Memorial Song GONE AGAIN Gone Again Beneath the Southern Cross About a Boy My Madrigal Summer Cannibals Dead to the World Wing Ravens Fireflies Farewell Reel Come Back Little Sheba PEACE AND NOISE Waiting Underground Whirl Away 1959 Don't Say Nothing Dead City Blue Poles Death Singing Memento Mori Last Call GUNG HO One Voice Lo and Beholden Boy Cried Wolf Persuasion Gone Pie China Bird Glitter in Their Eyes Strange Messengers Grateful Upright Come New Party Libbie's Song Gung Ho TRAMPIN' Trampin' Jubilee Mother Rose Stride of the Mind Cartwheels Gandhi Trespasses In My Blakean Year Cash Peaceable Kingdom Radio Baghdad

To honor the fortieth anniversary of her seminal album Horses, a revised and updated version of the iconic artist’s collected lyrics. This extraordinary collection from “rock and roll’s poet laureate” is a testimony to the fierce passion and uncompromising originality of Patti Smith’s music and writing. Building on the collection originally published in 1998, this new edition features more than thirty-five new songs, new artwork, and an introduction from Patti Smith herself. As relevant, fresh, and searing as when they were originally written, Smith’s lyrics capture her unique voice, raw in beauty, grace, and authenticity. Sharing a message of dedication, love, and compassion that speaks across the ages, Smith’s words empower fans and reveal the strong yet vulnerable heart of woman defined by her art.

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

Set in 1824, the establishment of a homestead in what is now downtown Ann Arbor marks the beginning of the town's rich history. The community's name is whimsically attributed to the founders' wives, though they were never in town simultaneously. The narrative highlights the contributions of early settlers who developed essential infrastructure, including schools, a courthouse, and streetcar lines. Their legacy is woven into the fabric of the town, evident in its streets and neighborhoods, reflecting the growth and evolution of Ann Arbor over the years.