“Perché non so scrivere qualcosa che possa risvegliare i morti?” New York, ultimi scampoli degli anni sessanta, l’atmosfera è effervescente. Patti e Robert stanno passeggiando, sono in città per festeggiare l’estate indiana. Incrociano una coppia di anziani, che si ferma a osservarli stupita. “Fagli una foto,” dice la donna. “Perché?” risponde il marito. “Sono soltanto ragazzini.” Just kids. Patti Smith sa guardarsi indietro e lo fa senza risparmiarsi, con la placata esuberanza dell’artista che ha raggiunto le vette del successo e della sua arte e con la passione disincantata di chi attraverso la fama ha imparato a conoscere luci e abissi. La sacerdotessa del rock ripercorre i sentieri che dall’infanzia a Chicago la portano a New York. Qui incontra Robert Mapplethorpe, fotografo estremo che con lei intreccia un cammino di arte, di devozione e di iniziazione. Insieme scoprono che rock, politica e sesso sono gli ingredienti essenziali della rivoluzione a venire. Il vero collante tra Patti e Robert è l’amicizia. Un’amicizia rara, pura, preziosa. Un patto esplicito di reciproco sostegno, fondato sulla condivisione di sogni, di visioni, di idee. Di arte. Just Kids è la confessione di una delle più grandi protagoniste del rock americano, di un’originale poetessa, di una musa, di una donna che ha saputo vivere ai margini delle convenzioni.
Patti Smith Libri
Patti Smith è una scrittrice, performer e artista visiva riconosciuta per la sua fusione rivoluzionaria di poesia e rock negli anni '70. Il suo lavoro è caratterizzato da una voce distintiva che fonde profondità letteraria con un'energica espressione artistica. Oltre alla musica, Smith si dedica anche alle arti visive e alla scrittura, spingendo continuamente i confini dell'espressione artistica. Le sue creazioni esplorano temi di identità, memoria e la ricerca di significato nell'arte e nella vita.







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.
The Beavers of Popple's Pond
- 284pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
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
Collected Lyrics 1970-2015
- 308pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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.
Downtown Ann Arbor
- 128pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
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.
An essential new collection of the lyrics of Patti Smith, writer, artist and musician, author of the international bestseller Just Kids
He left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read.".

