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Dans ce recueil de poèmes d'une beauté rock, Patti Smith révèle son univers le plus intime : sa relation à la nature, sa cartographie intérieure, ses propres contradictions, sa méditation sur la mort et sur la foi. Ce n'est pas pour autant un recueil de présages innocents. Fidèle à ses engagements politiques, l'artiste invoque le pouvoir de la poésie pour dénoncer les injustices, la disparition des animaux, la guerre (en Irak notamment) et les crimes commis par les puissants au nom de la paix ou du progrès. En rappelant qu'il existe des raisons de se soulever contre la peur et la folie qui s'abattent sur nos sociétés, Patti Smith s'inscrit dans la grande tradition des artistes qui font écho au monde par une voix audacieuse et incantatoire. Son recueil est imprégné des influences qui l'accompagnent depuis toujours : Rimbaud, Jeanne d'Arc, Picasso, Virginia Woolf, William Blake. Et ses poèmes, écrits en 2005, sonnent plus que jamais comme des oracles des temps modernes.
Apogée d'un travail poétique superbe, ce recueil de 26 poèmes dévoile les inspirations, les obsessions et la vision du monde de Patti Smith, artiste aussi sensible qu'engagée.
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Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une postface de l'auteur en 2013
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L'année du singe se présente à la fois comme un récit de voyage à travers la Californie, l'Arizona, le Portugal et le Kentucky, un fantastique carnet de rêves et de conversations imaginaires, et une méditation lucide sur le passage du temps, le deuil et la compassion. Au fil de ses déambulations solitaires, Patti Smith déroule l'année 2016, l'année charnière de ses soixante-dix ans. Le souvenir des lieux se mêle au paysage intérieur de l'artiste, et tout ce qu'elle a vu, rêvé ou lu, coexiste dans ce pays des merveilles tout personnel. Elle croise ainsi un cortège de fantômes aimés et admirés, parmi lesquels Roberto bolano, Jerry Garcia, mais aussi, et surtout, deux amis chers au crépuscule de leur vie : le dramaturge Sam Shepard et le producteur de musique Sandy Pearlman.Patti Smith tisse avec pudeur et mélancolie la toile de cette année singulière marquée par des bouleversements intimes et politiques, sans jamais s'abandonner à l'apitoiement ni au désespoir. Elle célèbre au contraire l'art et les pouvoirs de l'imagination, offre sa sagesse optimiste et sa finesse d'esprit, rappelant, s'il en était besoin, qu'elle est l'une des créatrices les plus talentueuses de notre temps.
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Fruit d'une collaboration poétique entre la photographe et la chanteuse, des portraits de Patti Smith se mêlent à ses chansons et ses poèmes.
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En dix-huit «stations», Patti Smith nous entraîne dans un voyage qui traverse le paysage de ses aspirations et de son inspiration, par le prisme des cafés et autres lieux qu'elle a visités dans le monde. De la Casa Azul de Frida Kahlo aux tombes de Genet, Rimbaud, Mishima, elle trace un itinéraire flottant au coeur de ses références et de sa vie. Oscillant entre rêve et réalité, passé et présent, Patti Smith nous propose un livre inclassable, profondément sensible et sincère, illustré par les photographies en noir et blanc qu'elle prend depuis toujours, et qui confirme qu'elle est l'une des artistes actuelles les plus singulières et indépendantes.
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«Pourquoi est-ce que j'écris ? Mon doigt trace la question dans le vide. Une énigme familière posée depuis la jeunesse, se retirer du jeu, des camarades et de la vallée de l'amour, ceinte de mots, un battement extérieur.» C'est une histoire d'obsession qui anime Patti Smith. De passage à Paris, sur les traces d'écrivains qui ont marqué son oeuvre - Camus, Weil, Modiano... - l'artiste observe et absorbe tout. À la manière d'un journal intime, elle retranscrit ses impressions dont s'inspire «Dévotion», la nouvelle au coeur de ce livre, un conte beau et tragique qui revisite le Faust de Goethe au féminin.
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Une saison en enfer : 1873
Patti Smith, Arthur Rimbaud
- GALLIMARD
- Blanche
- 28 Septembre 2023
- 9782072995736
Photographies, écrits, dessins de Patti Smith
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Patti Smith nous livre des instantanés de son enfance et de sa jeunesse sous forme de poèmes et de courts textes en prose agrémenté de quelques photos. De la jeune fille collectionneuse de billes à l'incorrigible rêveuse, elle nous invite à retrouver les sensations de l'enfance, le goût des mots et de l'imagination. Et le lecteur d'assister à la naissance de cette artiste protéiforme.
Un récit autobiographique aux images foisonnantes et empreint d'une douce poésie.
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Patti Smith et Robert Mapplethorpe se sont rencontrés en 1967, à New York. Ils avaient vingt ans et ont vécu ensemble pendant plusieurs années -; leurs carrières de musicienne et de photographe célèbres ne cessant plus, dès lors, de se croiser.
À la mort de Robert Mapplethorpe, en 1989, Patti Smith a livré sa vision de l'homme et de l'artiste dans ce récit extraordinairement sensible,
La Mer de Corail, qui annonçait le livre
Just Kids pour lequel elle a reçu en 2010 le National Book Award, la plus haute distinction littéraire aux États-Unis.
Lors de sa parution en 1996, William Burroughs a écrit, en citant Tennessee Williams, que
" Patti Smith fait résonner dans La Mer de Corail
la cloche de la poésie pure. " -
Extrait de Just Kids
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Les Années 70, ou le journal de bord poétique de l'auteur de Just Kids.
Les Années 70 réunit l'essentiel des écrits de Patti Smith parus au cours de cette décennie - parallèlement à son extraordinaire carrière musicale - dans plusieurs recueils fameux (Witt, Kodak, Ha ! Ha ! Houdini !...) Patti Smith, en jouant d'une langue rapide, parfois brutale, invente une mythologie moderne nourrie d'événements intimes, où se croisent amis et héros, réels ou imaginaires.
Cette insurrection poétique, sous la double influence de la littérature française et de la beat generation, aboutit dans certains textes à une douceur et un apaisement qui annoncent le lyrisme délicat de son livre-hommage à Robert Mapplethorpe, La Mer de Corail (Tristram, collection Souple).
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE 'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times 'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC 'Her willingness to look closely at life's closing chapters makes for a magical book' WASHINGTON POST, 'The 10 books to read in September' 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 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 Southern 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. But as Patti 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 of 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.
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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.
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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.> -
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 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. -
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.
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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.
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Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS 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 artists at work today.
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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.> -
"Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading."-Suzi Feay, Financial Times
"Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. "-Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic
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, a National Book Award-winning author, 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 cafe 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.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. -
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.> -
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe