Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106005683849
Wītt
Patti Smith
Wītt
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Mapplethorpe
Patricia Morrisroe
Author : Patricia Morrisroe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589447
Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe Pdf
With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than three hundred friends, lovers, family members, and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer. “Eventually I found several hundred people who knew Robert Mapplethorpe in all his various incarnations—Catholic schoolboy; ROTC cadet; hippie; sexual explorer; celebrated artist; and famous AIDS victim. Their stories helped animate his pictures and bring his visual diary to life. What I discovered wasn’t one “Perfect Moment” but a series of moments—some pure, some blemished, but all emblematic of the paradoxical times in which he lived.”—Patricia Morrisroe, from the Introduction NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735279292
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith Pdf
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Devotion
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300218626
Devotion by Patti Smith Pdf
"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.
Auguries of Innocence
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061982675
Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith Pdf
Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original; her poems are oracles for our times.
Woolgathering
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408832301
Woolgathering by Patti Smith Pdf
In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York's MacDougal Street, the street of cafés. Woolgathering was completed in Michigan, on Patti Smith's 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye's Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, Bloomsbury is proud to present it in a much augmented edition, featuring writing that was omitted from the book's first printing, along with new photographs and illustrations.
M Train
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345815477
M Train by Patti Smith Pdf
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world. M Train is a journey through seventeen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café 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. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories, including of her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant, multi-platform artists at work today.
The Coral Sea
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0393316262
The Coral Sea by Patti Smith Pdf
In linked pieces, singer/songwriter Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting upon his life and fighting the illness that is consuming him. Through this collection of metaphoric and dreamy poems, "a singular, glowing vision of Robert Mapplethorpe develops and emerges" (William S. Burroughs). Photos.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick
Author : Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606064702
Robert Mapplethorpe by Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick Pdf
Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe’s artistic vision helped shape the social and cultural fabric of the 1970s and ’80s and, following his death in 1989 from AIDS, informed the political landscape of the 1990s. His photographic works continue to resonate with audiences all over the world. Throughout his career, Mapplethorpe preserved studio files and art from every period and vein of his production, including student work, jewelry, sculptures, and commercial assignments. The resulting archive is fascinating and astonishing. With over 400 illustrations, this volume surveys a virtually unknown resource that sheds new light on the artist’s motivations, connections, business acumen, and talent as a curator and collector.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524704735
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pdf
A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott's beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Nominated as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family? The charming story of these four "little women" and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations.
Anglo-Saxon Primer
Henry Sweet
Author : Henry Sweet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752425796
Anglo-Saxon Primer by Henry Sweet Pdf
Reproduction of the original: Anglo-Saxon Primer by Henry Sweet
Babel
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0399121021
Babel by Patti Smith Pdf
This book contains Smith's poems along with her prose and lyrics.
A Book of Days
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781526650993
A Book of Days by Patti Smith Pdf
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 "Hell[Bokinfo].
Early Work 1970 To 1979
Patti Smith
Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393313018
Early Work 1970 To 1979 by Patti Smith Pdf
A collection of Smith's early poems and prose, which is both meditative and explosive, and evokes the desire to break boundaries in the pre-punk era.
Strange Messenger
Patti Smith,David Greenberg
Author : Patti Smith,David Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056922050
Strange Messenger by Patti Smith,David Greenberg Pdf
Artwork by Patti Smith. Edited by John Smith. Text by David Greenberg.