Лучшие книги Патти Смит

Патти Смит - американская рок-певица и поэт, подруга и любимая модель фотографа Роберта Мэпплторпа. В своих воспоминаниях рисует точный и в то же время глубоко личный портрет эпохи. Нью-Йорк конца шестидесятых, "Фабрика" Энди Уорхола, Вудсток, встречи с великими поэтами-битниками и легендарными музыкантами неразрывно переплетены с историей взросления и творческого роста самой Патти, одной из самых ярких представительниц поколения.

Новая книга Патти Смит — это удивительная одиссея легендарной певицы, путешествие из настоящего в прошлое и обратно, тропинка между мечтами и реальностью, путь от депрессии к вдохновению. Читатель побывает в Синем доме Фриды Кало, на заседании Клуба дрейфа континентов в Берлине, на могилах Жене, Плат, Рембо, Мисимы. В этой книге отчаянье переплетено с надеждой, а тоска с любовью, и все озарено талантом писательницы, уже получившей Национальную книжную премию за свою первую книгу воспоминаний "Просто дети".

Поэт, певица и «крестная мать панк-движения» Патти Смит предстает в книге поэтической прозы «Я пасу облака» в совершенно непривычном образе. Здесь она – маленькая девочка, впервые познающая такой волнующий и пугающий окружающий мир. Она слышит движение трав и листвы деревьев. Она верит в существование других миров. Широко открытыми глазами она смотрит на проносящиеся над ее головой облака и понимает, что все вокруг – не просто так, что все взаимосвязано, и она – часть этого волшебного мира. Знаменитая певица, изменившая рок-н-ролл и написавшая несколько великих песен, смогла сохранить в себе частичку детства. В книге «Я пасу облака» она не просто вспоминает это детство, она дарит его частичку читателям.

В "Преданности" легендарная певица, поэтесса и писательница размышляет о творчестве и вдохновении, подробно анализируя, что именно способно дать тот самый импульс, который позволяет свершиться акту творения. Города, книги, люди, кладбища, гостиницы, кинотеатры, кафе становятся исходными точками её творчества – с одной стороны, порождая новые произведения, а с другой, в какой-то мере возникая благодаря им.
"Год обезьяны" – это 2016 год. Он начинается с того, что семидесятилетняя Патти Смит регистрируется в гостинице "Мечта", и это задает тональность всему произведению, балансирующему на грани сна и яви, вымысла и реальности. Здесь будет и президентство Дональда Трампа, и таинственный пляж, покрытый тысячами фантиков от конфет, и смерть двух близких друзей: Сэнди Перлмана и Сэма Шепарда.

Опубликованный полвека назад автобиографический роман Альбертины Сарразен "Меня зовут Астрагаль" обошел весь мир. Написанный в тюрьме, где она провела несколько лет и куда за проституцию и воровство попадала не раз, он принес ей настоящую славу. Воспитанная приемными родителями — настоящих она никогда не знала, — Альбертина в шестнадцать лет сбежала из школы для трудновоспитуемых и пыталась выжить в Париже всеми дозволенными и недозволенными способами. И все это время, в неволе и на свободе, она писала. Признание пришло незадолго до смерти. Выпустив подряд три бестселлера, Альбертина Сарразен умерла в тридцать лет от врачебной ошибки, не…

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.

Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.

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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 Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always…

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…

An 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…

"The first time she opened her mouth on a stage, Patti Smith became the catalyst and conduit for everything that is rock and roll. Her influence is inescapable and blessed. Anybody that breathes should eat this book". Michael Stipe & R.E.M.

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.

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…

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind

Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko's iconic billboard, Max's Kansas City, or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea. The extraordinary people who passed through their lives are also pictured: Sam Shepard, Harry Smith, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. Along with never-before-published photographs, drawings, and ephemera, this edition captures a moment in New York when everything was possible. And when two kids seized their destinies as artists and soul mates in this inspired story of love and friendship.

"Chaque jour est précieux, parce que nous respirons encore pour rester attentifs, chacun à notre façon, émus par la lumière qui tombe sur une haute branche, la table de travail le matin, la tombe d'un poète bien-aimé". Un livre de jours retrace en photos une année de vie dans l'univers de Patti Smith. Chaque jour est l'occasion de découvrir un nouveau cliché de l'autrice ou de sa collection. De sa guitare favorite à des images de son enfance en passant par son édition rare d'Une saison en enfer ou un portrait d'Allen Ginsberg, nous plongeons de manière ludique et esthétique au coeur du monde fascinant d'une artiste culte qui se dévoile ici comme jamais.
Accompagnés de légendes pleines d'esprit et de douceur, les 366 visuels, poétiques, tendres et souvent nostalgiques, sont aussi une célébration de la vie et de toutes les petites réjouissances qu'elle offre chaque jour. Pour rendre hommage à la France et à ses lecteurs français qui lui sont si chers, Patti Smith a personnalisé cette édition avec une préface et des photos inédites.

Everything contained in this little book is true, and written just like it was. The writing of it drew me from my strange torpor and I hope that in some measure it will fill the reader with a vague and curious joy...
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 cafes.
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.

"Hecatomb" is a long-awaited collaboration between acclaimed musician and poet Patti Smith (born 1946) and Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño (born 1955). The book most notably features a poem dedicated by Smith to Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, complemented by 20 drawings from Suárez Londoño.

Through the linked pieces of The Coral Sea, Patti Smith honors her comrade-in-arms Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). She tells the story of a man on an ocean journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is consuming him. Metaphoric and dreamy, this tale of transformation arises from Smith's knowledge of Mapplethorpe from a young man to a mature artist; his close relationship with patron and friend, Sam Wagstaff; his years surviving AIDS; and his ascent into death. The Coral Sea is Smith's lyrically compelling recasting of her grief to recapture Mapplethorpe's life in the past and his future in his art. Rich in evocative details, it shows the man beneath the persona. This edition features a new introduction and new material by Smith.