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This is a book review "Just Kids," Patti Smith's early years in New York with romance with Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sackners have a signed deluxe copy of the book and also heard Patti Smith talk and perform at the Miami Book Fair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In this deluxe edition, Patti Smith has written a poem in a separately printed broadside commerating her feelings about Robert Mapplethorpe. The book is the autobiography of Smith's young years and her deep relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, visual artist, poet and rock star who has currently returned to the music scene.Bartholomew Amazon.com review: Before she became the Godmother of Punk, Patti Smith was just some girl who came to New York in search of herself. We have a tendency to view her as always having been a rebel, guitar in hand, spouting her distinctive mix of poetry and invective at society. But the reality was that Smith came to New York as a refugee, uncertain of who she was and what she wanted to be. That's sometimes a bit hard to believe or realize, but in "Just Kids" Smith reveals just that: she wasn't one half as confident then as she is now, and that she had no idea what she was going to do once she arrived in...

Scope and Contents This book is the autobiography of Smith's young years and her deep relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, visual artist, poet and rock star who has currently returned to the music scene.Bartholomew Amazon.com review: Before she became the Godmother of Punk, Patti Smith was just some girl who came to New York in search of herself. We have a tendency to view her as always having been a rebel, guitar in hand, spouting her distinctive mix of poetry and invective at society. But the reality was that Smith came to New York as a refugee, uncertain of who she was and what she wanted to be. That's sometimes a bit hard to believe or realize, but in "Just Kids" Smith reveals just that: she wasn't one half as confident then as she is now, and that she had no idea what she was going to do once she arrived in New York. While this is true of almost everyone from her generation, it is somehow shocking and bizarre to ponder. More interesting was that...

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a...

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a...

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The exhibition, which also travelled to the ICA at the University of Pennsylvania, consisted of early drawings by Smith in which she "struggles to transform the written language itself, creating unforeseen permutations -an alchemy of word and gesture." The second part of the catalogue contains drawings related to September 11, the Tower of Babel and the works of Rimbaud, William Blake and Antonin Artaud. There are several shaped, calligraphic poems in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.