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Devotion

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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, the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. She 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.

Издательство: "Yale University Press" (2017)

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Smith, Patti

▪ American poet, songwriter, and singer
Introduction
in full  Patti Lee Smith  
born December 30, 1946, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

      American poet, rock songwriter, and singer. Growing up in New Jersey, Smith won an art scholarship to Glassboro State Teachers College. In 1967 she moved to New York City, where she became active in the downtown Manhattan arts scene, writing poetry and living with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (Mapplethorpe, Robert). Her performance-driven poetry readings soon took on a musical component, and from 1971 she worked regularly with the guitarist and critic Lenny Kaye. By 1973 they had formed a band and began performing widely in the . Smith's mesmeric charisma, chantlike but hoarsely compelling musical declamation, visionary texts, and simple but ingenious rock music won her an intense cult following.

      Signed to a contract with Arista Records, she released her first album, Horses, in 1975; it was produced by John Cale, the Welsh avant-gardist and cofounder (with Lou Reed) of the Velvet Underground (Velvet Underground, the). Her purest, truest album, it replicated her live shows better than any subsequent LP. Later albums of the 1970s moved in a more commercial direction, with a pounding big beat that bludgeoned away some of her subtlety; at the same time, her concerts often became sloppy and undisciplined. After Radio Ethiopia (1976) she released her most commercially successful album, Easter, in 1978. It included a hit single, “Because the Night,” written with Bruce Springsteen (Springsteen, Bruce).

      Following the album Wave in 1979, Smith disbanded her group and retired to Detroit, Michigan, where she raised a family with Fred (Sonic) Smith, founder of the band MC5 (MC5, the). Although she recorded an album with her husband in 1988 (Dream of Life) and began working on new songs with him a few years later, it was only after his sudden death from a heart attack in 1994 that her comeback began in earnest. Gone Again, her first solo album in 17 years, appeared in 1996 and was followed by Peace and Noise (1997) and Gung Ho (2000); she continued releasing new work in the 21st century. If anything, this late work showed her stronger than ever, full of the old fire but purged of her more extreme excesses.

      Although she never topped the charts, Smith precipitated punk rock in New York, London, Los Angeles, and beyond. A pioneer in the fusion of the bohemian sensibility with rock, she was able to translate the incantatory power of Beat (Beat movement) writers such as Allen Ginsberg (Ginsberg, Allen) and William S. Burroughs (Burroughs, William S.) into the rock mainstream. In 2007 Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

John Rockwell

Representative Works

Poetry
● Babel (1978)
● Early Work, 1970–1979 (1994)
● The Coral Sea (1996)

Discography
● Horses (1975)
● Radio Ethiopia (1976)
● Easter (1978)
● Wave (1979)
● Dream of Life (1988)
● Gone Again (1996)
● Peace and Noise (1997)

Additional Reading
Patti Smith, Patti Smith (1977), is a collection of poems and sheet music; and Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future (1998) combines all her lyrics to date with her own annotations and photographs by Annie Leibovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Dusty Roach, Patti Smith: Rock & Roll Madonna (1979), is a popular photo book. Profiles of her may be found in Lucy O'Brien, She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop, and Soul (1995), pp. 111–117; and Deborah Frost, “Patti Smith,” in Barbara O'Dair (ed.), Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (1997), pp. 269–275.

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Источник: Smith, Patti

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