Bücher von Patti Smith

National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir

National Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train 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. 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 powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

A revised and updated version of the artist's collected lyricsAn American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer. Her work is rooted in poetry, which infused her 1975 landmark album, Horses. A declaration of existence, Horses was described as 'three chords merged with the power of the word'; it was graced with the now iconic portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, the subject of her award-winning memoir Just Kids. Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith's Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Smith's groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs, including her first, 'Work Song', written for Janis Joplin in 1970, and her most current, 'Writer's Song', to be recorded in 2015. The collection is liberally illustrated with original manuscripts of lyrics from Smith's extensive archive.Patti Smith's work continues to retain its relevance, whether controversial, political, romantic or spiritual. Collected Lyrics offers forty-five years of song, an enduring commemoration of Smith's unique contribution to the canon of rock and roll.

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 InstagramIn 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 cafés, 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.

Warum schreibe ich? Ein sehr poetisches und persönliches Buch der Ausnahmekünstlerin Patti Smith.Punk-Ikone, Musikerin, Künstlerin, Schriftstellerin. Mühelos füllt Patti Smith all diese Rollen aus. In »Hingabe« veröffentlicht sie ihre erste literarische Erzählung und gewährt Einblicke in ihren Schreibprozess.Warum muss man schreiben? Welche geheimnisvolle Macht steht hinter jenem Drang, Gesehenes, Geschehenes und Erlebtes, Gedanken und Gefühle zu Papier zu bringen und sie auf diese Weise für sich selbst zu ordnen? Dieser Frage geht Patti Smith in ihrem neuen Buch nach, auf ihre ganz eigene, unnachahmliche Weise. Und zum ersten Mal überhaupt schreibt sie auch fiktional. Eine Erzählung über eine Eisläuferin, die von ihremTraum, einfach »nur« zu laufen, über das Eis zu gleiten, so besessen ist, dass sie bereit ist, fast alles dafür zu tun. Flankiert wird diese Erzählung von essayistischen Texten, in denen Patti Smith von ihren Reisen schreibt, die sie auf den Spuren berühmter Schriftsteller unternommen hat. Sie fährt nach Südfrankreich, in das Haus von Albert Camus, sie besucht das Grab von Simone Weil in England. Und sie durchstreift, immer mit dem Buch in der Hand, das Paris von Patrick Modiano. Jedes Erlebnis, alles, was sie sieht und fühlt, kann irgendwann Text werden. Patti Smith lässt uns teilhaben an ihrem kreativen Prozess, und wir erleben sie einmal mehr als eine der großen Künstlerinnen der Gegenwart.

Nach dem preisgekrönten Bestseller »Just Kids« nun die Kindheitserinnerungen der großen Patti SmithDieses wunderbar poetische, anrührende, persönliche Buch von Patti Smith enthält Texte über ihre Kindheit, Gedichte und Gedanken über das Leben, die Zeit und ihre Zeitgenossen. Der schön ausgestattete Band mit zahlreichen Fotos aus dem Besitz der Autorin ist die aktualisierte Fortschreibung einer exklusiven limitierten Ausgabe, die vor 20 Jahren in den USA erschien, und liegt nun zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch vor.Punkrock-Ikone und Dichterin. Bei Patti Smith ging das schon immer zusammen. Wer dieses kleine Buch in die Hand nimmt, wird sofort von seinem poetischen Ton gefangen genommen. Hier wirft jemand mit enormer Sensibilität und kreativer Kraft Schlaglichter auf das eigene Leben. Situationen aus Patti Smiths Kindheit, die irgendwo zwischen Traum und Wachen zu schweben scheinen, bekommen so eine besondere Eindringlichkeit. Aber auch Alltäglichem wie dem Zubereiten von Pfefferminztee oder dem Einnicken während einer Näharbeit verleiht Patti Smith mit ihren Worten geradezu spirituelles Gewicht. Die Wollsammler aus ihrer Kindheit, mit denen sie als kleines Mädchen in ihren Träumen umhergewandert ist, bilden ein immer wiederkehrendes Motiv in diesem kleinen, feinen Buch, das Poesie und Prosa auf einzigartige Weise verbindet.

National Best SellerFrom the National Book Awardwinning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafes and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as ';a roadmap to my life.' 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 powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

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.