Patti Smith

Patti Smith vie lukijansa intiimille matkalle toisen maailmansodan jälkeiseen lapsuuteensa, jota värittävät muun muassa tuhoon tuomittu talokompleksi, katoavat naapurit, saastunut rottatalo, kiusaajien kukistaminen ja pyhien hopeakolikoiden metsästäminen. Teini-iässä roihuavat ensirakkaudet niin poikiin kuin taiteeseen, kirjoittaminen alkaa, Arthur Rimbaud ja Bob Dylan astuvat esikuvina näyttämölle, rockmuusikon ura nousee vähitellen siivilleen. Tavattuaan suuren rakkautensa, Fred Sonic Smithin, Patti jättää musiikkimaailman taakseen, perustaa perheen ja keskittyy uudenlaiseen seikkailuun miehensä ja lastensa kanssa - palatakseen suurten surujen ja menetysten jälkeen vapaaksi taiteilijaksi, jolla on taito muuttaa arkinen maagiseksi ja löytää tuskasta toivon siemeniä.

A new trade publication of Before Easter After, originally published in a limited edition at $1,000. With hundreds of rarely seen images by Lynn Goldsmith, one of the great photographers of rock n roll history, and texts by Smith, this book documents a transformative moment in the artist s career and celebrates two women whose creative partnership continues to this day.

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 Horses, Smith's groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs and 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 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.

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times, 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly beautiful' Service95 A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, ‘Dancing Barefoot’ and ‘Because the Night’. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again — the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

“God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the imagination. Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Here, she invents a room of her own, a low table, a Persian cup, inkwell and pen, entering at dawn to write. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family. A series of profound losses mark her life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

Sinä rakkauden ja vallankumouksen kesänä satunnainen kohtaaminen Brooklynissä vihki kaksi nuorta taiteiden antaumukselliselle polulle. Patti Smithistä kehkeytyisi runoilija ja lavaesiintyjä, ja Robert Mapplethornista aistillinen valokuvaaja. Viattoman innoissaan nämä kaksi vaelsivat halki kaupungin ja päätyivät Andy Warholin hoviin. Vuonna 1969 pariskunta leiriytyi kuuluisaan Chelsea-hotelliin ja liittyi taiteilijoiden ja heidän hännystelijöidensä kirjavaan sakkiin. Runouden, rockin, taiteiden ja estottoman seksuaalisuuden törmäillessä toisiinsa Patti ja Robert laativat keskenäisen sopimuksen tukea toisiaan vaikeinakin aikoina. Ihan kakaroita on paitsi kunnianosoitus 1960-70-luvun vaihteen New York Citylle myös ystävyyden suruharsoinen elegia. Se voitti National Book Award for Nonfiction-palkinnon ilmestyessään 2010.

366 D AS EN LA VIDA DE PATTI SMITH, autora de ramos unos ni os y ganadora del National Book Award: una emocionante inmersi n en el universo de una mujer nica En la lista de m s vendidos de The New York Times En 2018 Patti Smith public su primera foto en Instagram: su mano y un simple mensaje: «Hola a todos . Cambi su querida Polaroid Land Camera 250 por su tel fono y traslad parte de su diario a la red social, donde comenz a compartir su d a a d a, desde su caf matutino, sus lecturas o su gato abisinio, Cairo, hasta sus viajes o sus visitas a las tumbas de los escritores que m s adora. Poco despu s, m s de un mill n de personas segu an su cuenta. Inspir ndose en ese formato, Patti Smith recoge ahora en El libro de los d as trescientas sesenta y seis instant neas, la mayor a de ellas in ditas, acompa adas de textos que constituyen «esbozos de or culos trescientas sesenta y seis flechas dirigidas al coraz n cotidiano de las cosas, trescientas sesenta y seis maneras de decir «hola . Una forma nica de sumergirse en el universo ntimo y emocional de una artista que es ya un icono de nuestro tiempo. de los mejores libros del a o seg n varios medios ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 366 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF PATTI SMITH, author of Just Kids and winner of the National Book Award: an emotional immersion into the universe of a unique woman. A New York Times Bestseller In 2018, Patti Smith posted her first photo on Instagram: her hand and a simple message--"Hello everybody." She traded her beloved Polaroid Land Camera 250 for her phone and brought part of her diary to the social network, where she began sharing moments from her daily life: her morning coffee, her readings, her Abyssinian cat, Cairo, as well as her travels and visits to the graves of the writers she most admires. Shortly thereafter, more than a million people were following her account. Inspired by that format, Patti Smith now presents A Book of Days, featuring three hundred sixty-six snapshots, most of them never before published, accompanied by texts she describes as "sketches of oracles" three hundred sixty-six arrows aimed at the everyday heart of things, three hundred sixty-six ways of saying "hello." A unique way to dive into the intimate and emotional world of an artist who has become an icon of our time. One of the best books of the year according to various media outlets.

GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD El libro ic nico de Patti Smith, en el que cuenta su relaci n con Robert Mapplethorpe: un homenaje a la amistad cuyas p ginas cargadas de vitalidad y humor nos devuelven el sabor de un Nueva York donde casi todo era posible. UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE LOS LTIMOS 25 A OS SEG N AMAZON « ramos unos ni os es el libro que m s me ha influenciado. Es un libro incre ble y una c psula del tiempo de cuando la creatividad estaba surgiendo de verdad . -Dua Lipa Fue el verano en que muri Coltrane. ] Los hippies alzaron sus brazos vac os y China hizo detonar la bomba de hidr geno. Jimi Hendrix prendi fuego a su guitarra en Monterrey. ...] Fue el verano del amor. Y en aquel clima cambiante e inh spito, un encuentro casual cambi el curso de mi vida. Fue el verano en que conoc a Robert Mapplethorpe. Sucedi en el mes de julio de 1967 y eran unos ni os, pero a partir de entonces Patti Smith y Robert Mapplethorpe sellaron una amistad que solo acabar a con la muerte del gran fot grafo, en 1989. De eso habla este espl ndido libro de memorias, ganador del National Book Award, de la vida en com n de dos artistas, los dos entusiastas y apasionados, que cruzaron a grandes pasos la periferia de Nueva York para llegar hasta el centro neur lgico del nuevo arte. Fue as como acabaron instal ndose en el hotel Chelsea y se convirtieron en los protagonistas de un mundo hoy ya desaparecido donde reinaban Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol y sus chicos, y se creaban las grandes bandas de m sica que marcaron los ltimos a os del siglo XX, mientras el sida hac a estragos. Lejos de ser un libro triste y nost lgico, ramos unos ni os constituye un homenaje a la amistad sin trabas, y sus p ginas, cargadas de vitalidad y humor, nos devuelven el sabor de esa gran ciudad donde hubo un tiempo en que casi todo era posible. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Patti Smith's iconic book, in which she recounts her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe: a tribute to friendship whose pages, filled with vitality and humor, bring back the flavor of a New York where almost anything was possible. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE LAST 25 YEARS ACCORDING TO AMAZON "Just Kids is the book that has influenced me the most. It's an incredible book and a time capsule of when creativity was truly emerging." - Dua Lipa It was the summer Coltrane died. ] The hippies raised their empty arms and China detonated the hydrogen bomb. Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire in Monterey. ...] It was the summer of love. And in that changing and inhospitable climate, a chance encounter changed the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert Mapplethorpe. It happened in July 1967, and they were just kids, but from then on, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe sealed a friendship that would only end with the death of the great photographer in 1989. This splendid memoir, winner of the National Book Award, talks about the shared life of two artists, both enthusiastic and passionate, who crossed the periphery of New York in great strides to reach the nerve center of new art. This is how they ended up settling in the Chelsea Hotel and became protagonists of a now vanished world where Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and his entourage reigned, and the great bands that marked the last years of the XX century were created, while AIDS wreaked havoc. Far from being a sad and nostalgic book, Just Kids is a tribute to unrestrained friendship, and its pages, filled with vitality and humor, bring back the flavor of that great city where there was a time when almost anything was possible.

Las radiantes memorias definitivas de uno de los m s grandes iconos de nuestro tiempo, ganadora del National Book Award: un canto a la creaci n, el amor y la esperanza «No solo es una gran artista, es una maga, es decir, alguien en contacto con otros niveles de realidad . --William S. Burroughs «Patti Smith es una diosa intergeneracional . --Montserrat Dom nguez «Dios susurra a trav s de una arruga en el papel pintado , escribe Patti Smith en estas extraordinarias memorias en las que, desde su primer recuerdo hasta sus actuales inquietudes, teje un inolvidable relato de una vida consagrada a la belleza, la m sica, la poes a y el amor. Nacida en el seno de una familia de clase trabajadora poco despu s de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su infancia dickensiana transcurre entre desahucios y enfermedades, alternados con juegos y libros de cuentos que le abrir n las puertas de un mundo lleno de magia y sue os de libertad. Pronto descubre en Arthur Rimbaud y Bob Dylan los modelos para sus propios poemas y canciones, y en Nueva York, un nuevo territorio art stico donde formar una banda y componer discos tan legendarios como Horses y Because the Night. Amor y familia, p rdida y reconstrucci n y, siempre, la escritura ser n las constantes de una trayectoria vital impulsada por la libertad art stica y el poder de la imaginaci n para transformar lo cotidiano en sagrado, lo com n en m gico y el dolor en esperanza. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The radiant definitive memoirs of one of the greatest icons of our time, winner of the National Book Award: a song to creation, love, and hope. "Not only is she a great artist, she is a magician, that is, someone in touch with other levels of reality." --William S. Burroughs "Patti Smith is an intergenerational goddess." --Montserrat Dom nguez "God whispers through a wrinkle in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in these extraordinary memoirs in which, from her first memory to her current concerns, she weaves an unforgettable tale of a life devoted to beauty, music, poetry, and love. Born into a working-class family shortly after World War II, her Dickensian childhood was spent between evictions and illnesses, interspersed with games and storybooks that opened the doors to a world full of magic and dreams of freedom. She soon discovered in Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan the models for her own poems and songs, and in New York, a new artistic territory where she formed a band and composed legendary albums such as Horses and Because the Night. Love and family, loss and reconstruction, and always writing will be the constants of a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of imagination to transform the everyday into the sacred, the common into the magical, and pain into hope.

GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD El libro ic nico de Patti Smith, en el que cuenta su relaci n con Robert Mapplethorpe: un homenaje a la amistad cuyas p ginas cargadas de vitalidad y humor nos devuelven el sabor de un Nueva York donde casi todo era posible. Fue el verano en que muri Coltrane. ] Los hippies alzaron sus brazos vac os y China hizo detonar la bomba de hidr geno. Jimi Hendrix prendi fuego a su guitarra en Monterrey. ...] Fue el verano del amor. Y en aquel clima cambiante e inh spito, un encuentro casual cambi el curso de mi vida. Fue el verano en que conoc a Robert Mapplethorpe. Sucedi en el mes de julio de 1967 y eran unos ni os, pero a partir de entonces Patti Smith y Robert Mapplethorpe sellaron una amistad que solo acabar a con la muerte del gran fot grafo, en 1989. De eso habla este espl ndido libro de memorias, ganador del National Book Award, de la vida en com n de dos artistas, los dos entusiastas y apasionados, que cruzaron a grandes pasos la periferia de Nueva York para llegar hasta el centro neur lgico del nuevo arte. Fue as como acabaron instal ndose en el hotel Chelsea y se convirtieron en los protagonistas de un mundo hoy ya desaparecido donde reinaban Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol y sus chicos, y se creaban las grandes bandas de m sica que marcaron los ltimos a os del siglo XX, mientras el sida hac a estragos. Lejos de ser un libro triste y nost lgico, ramos unos ni os constituye un homenaje a la amistad sin trabas, y sus p ginas, cargadas de vitalidad y humor, nos devuelven el sabor de esa gran ciudad donde hubo un tiempo en que casi todo era posible. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- People 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.

God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Smith starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic recordings and songs such as Horses and Easter, “Dancing Barefoot” and “Because the Night.” She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred “Sonic” Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again—the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

Femton år efter Patti Smiths hyllade Just Kids ger Brombergs i november ut fortsättningen. Personligt skrivet om ett liv inspirerat och format av kärlek, förlust, uppoffring och konst.Änglarnas bröd är det mest personliga som Patti Smith har skrivit. Hon tar oss genom sin barndom efter andra världskriget: lungsjuka barn, grannar som kämpar för överlevnad i ett utdömt bostadsområde. Där, i barnets värld fylld av drömmar och fantasier, står Patti som kapten för sin lojala och älskade syskonarmé. Hon besegrar mobbare, samtalar med sköldpaddornas konung och söker efter heliga silvermynt.Under tonårstiden får musiken och poesin allt större plats i hennes liv och Arthur Rimbaud och Bob Dylan blir viktiga förebilder. Hon skriver poesi, sedan låttexter, vilket leder till ikoniska inspelningar som Horses, Dancing Barefoot och Because the Night. Men en dag lämnar hon allt bakom sig för att gifta sig med sin stora kärlek, Fred ”Sonic” Smith. Tillsammans skapar de ett liv vid en kanal i St. Clair Shores, Michigan, med gamla pilträd och fruktträd. Hon bygger ett eget rum, inrett med en kudde av marockanskt silke, en persisk kopp, bläckhorn och penna. Paret tillbringar nätterna med att studera nautiska kartor och att planera nya äventyr samtidigt som de bildar en familj.När Patti Smith genomgår svåra tider vävs sorg och tacksamhet samman genom att ta hand om sina barn, att återuppbygga sitt liv och, slutligen, att börja skriva igen. Där finns möjligheten att omvandla det vardagliga till det vackra, det vanliga till det magiska, att göra smärta till hopp - och att leva för att skriva och att skriva för att leva."Självklart kommer Just kids att bli en klassiker." Dagens Nyheter"Patti Smith är en lysande författare, som vet hur man gör konst av sitt liv. Hon skriver med oavbrutet starkt vibrerande närvaro." Aftonbladet

A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.‘God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper’, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, ‘Dancing Barefoot’ and ‘Because the Night’.She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again — the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

'God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper’, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as ‘Horses’ and ‘Easter’, ‘Dancing Barefoot’ and ‘Because the Night’. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Smith starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic recordings and songs such as Horses and Easter, "Dancing Barefoot" and "Because the Night." She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred "Sonic" Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again--the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

Ei eventyrleg forteljing om livet som musikar av Patti Smith, forfattaren bak boksuksessen Just Kids. Patti Smith veks opp i etterkrigstida. Frå eit falleferdig bustadkompleks tar ho oss med inn i barnets fantasiverd. Ho opptrer som kaptein for ein lojal søskenhær, overvinn bøller, kommuniserer med kongen av skjelpadder og leitar etter heilage sølvmyntar.Vi blir med vidare gjennom tenåra, der Arthur Rimbaud og Bob Dylan dukkar opp som forbilde når Smith begynner å skrive poesi, deretter songtekster, og kombinerer begge delar i dei ikoniske innspelingane som Horses og Easter. Men så legg ho alt dette bak seg for å gifte seg med den eine sanne kjærleiken sin, Fred «Sonic» Smith, og med han skapar ho eit liv i truskap og eventyr ved ein kanal i St. Clair Shores i Michigan. Her, i den landfaste Chris-Craft-båten sin, sit paret oppe om nettene og studerer nautiske kart og kartlegg nye eventyr, samtidig som dei stiftar familie.Mens Smith lid store tap, flettar sorg og takksemd seg saman gjennom år med omsorg for barna og forsøk på å bygge livet opp igjen. Til slutt begynner ho på ny å skrive – og forvandlar det verdslege til noko vakkert, det vanlege til noko magisk og smerte til håp.Omsett av Ingvild Holvik.

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe‘Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted' Sunday Times‘Terrifically evocative ... The most spellbinding and diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late '60s and '70s that any alumnus has committed to print' New York Times‘Render, harrowing, often hilarious' VogueIn 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years--the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.

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