Новинки Патти Смит

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 photos from Smith’s archives 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 over 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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

Середовище Нью-Йорка 1960-х років у мемуарах Патті Сміт постає як галактика зірок різних барв і яскравості, об’єднаних прагненням нести у світ потужну енергію мистецтва. У центрі цієї галактики — авторка з її творчими пошуками, епатажний фотограф та її друг Роберт Мепплторп і ті люди, з ким вона перетиналась на творчих дорогах між хмарочосів. Сторінки цієї книжки — наче фойє легендарного готелю «Челсі», якому присвячено чимало ліричних епізодів. І там прогулюються яскраві й харизматичні, а водночас близькі авторці Джимі Гендрікс, Дженіс Джоплін, Боб Ділан та багато інших...

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.

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

En dix-huit «stations», elle 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 de par le globe. M Train débute au 'Ino, le petit bar de Greenwich Village où elle va chaque matin boire son café noir, méditer sur le monde tel qu'il est ou tel qu'il fut, et écrire dans son carnet. En passant par la Casa Azul de Frida Kahlo dans la banlieue de Mexico, par les tombes de Genet, Rimbaud, Mishima, ou encore par un bungalow délabré en bord de mer, à New York, qu'elle a acheté juste avant le passage dévastateur de l'ouragan Sandy, Patti Smith nous propose un itinéraire flottant au cœur de ses références (on croise Murakami, Blake, Bolaño, Sebald, Burroughs... ) et des événements de sa vie. Écrit dans une prose fluide et subtile qui oscille entre rêve et réalité, passé et présent, évocations de son engagement artistique et de la perte tragique de son mari - le guitariste Fred «Sonic» Smith -, M Train est une réflexion sur le deuil et l'espoir, le passage du temps et le souvenir, la création, les séries policières, la littérature, le café... Après Glaneurs de rêves (Gallimard, 2014), Patti Smith nous propose un nouveau 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...

Volum de amintiri atipic, Trenul M este, în esenţă, o poveste despre curgerea vieţii, relatată de o legendă a muzicii punk rock americane. Fie că vorbeşte despre rutina ei newyorkeză sau despre legăturile cu artişti precum William Burroughs sau Paul Bowles, Patti Smith rememorează pentru a înțelege, în acordurile unei melancolii temperate, ale unui umor subtil. Proza ei împleteşte realitatea cu visul şi încearcă să le descifreze rostul amîndurora; tînjeşte după cafeneaua perfectă şi după soţul ei decedat; merge pe urmele marilor artişti care i-au marcat existenţa, în căutarea unui adevăr profund; susţine concerte şi conferinţe, scrie, bea mereu cafea – drogul ei declarat – şi are vise obsesive. Dar ceea ce captivează în primul rînd în acest volum este personalitatea complexă a autoarei, ce reuşeşte să îşi apropie cititorul şi să îl facă părtaş la căutările, întrebările şi răspunsurile ei, care definesc umanitatea.

„Ce înseamnă să fii femeie şi să fii singură? Această întrebare este esenţa volumului Trenul M, alături de veşnica interogaţie: unde găseşti cea mai bună cafea? Trenul M e un jurnal al călătoriilor alimentate cu cafeină, imaginativ, emoţionant, transgresiv şi de o stranietate încîntătoare, care te face să rătăceşti şi în care te pierzi, doar ca să descoperi apoi esenţa adevărului şi a comuniunii în propria ta fiinţă.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

„Proza lui Patti Smith pendulează fără efort între prezentul şi trecutul ei, dar şi al savanţilor şi artiştilor ce au inspirat-o şi de care se simte apropiată: regizorul japonez Akira Kurosawa, poetul Arthur Rimbaud sau Alfred Wegener, primul om de ştiinţă care a avansat ipoteza derivei continentelor.” (Miami Herald)

„Chiar şi atunci cînd stă singură pe treptele locuinţei sale din New York şi se uită la petrecăreţii beţi, Patti Smith reuşeşte să dea senzaţia că în lume nu există nimic mai fermecător.” (Financial Times)

"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.

M Train is a journey through seventeen "stations." It 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. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories, including of her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant, multi-platform artists at work today.

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".

Woolgathering

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.

M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It 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. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant multiplatform artists at work today.

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.

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…

Pe cînd eram doar nişte puşti, autobiografia lui Patti Smith, surprinde cu onestitate şi sensibilitate viaţa clocotitoare din New Yorkul anilor ’60-’70. Totul se petrece în ecourile dorinţei de pace şi libertate socială şi sexuală din epocă, ale protestelor împotriva războiului din Vietnam. În vreme ce formaţii celebre ca The Rolling Stones sau The Doors îşi ţin concertele, iar legende ale rockului precum Jimi Hendrix sau Janis Joplin îşi împart faima cu tabloidele ce scriu despre crimele cutremurătoare ale lui Charles Manson, scriitoarea trece prin peripeţiile tinereţii şi prin strădaniile de-a face ceva semnificativ cu viaţa ei. Cititorul are astfel prilejul să pătrundă în lumea artiştilor excentrici de la faimosul Chelsea Hotel şi în universul magic al relaţiei de iubire şi prietenie cu fotograful Robert Mapplethorpe. Cartea a fost distinsă chiar în anul apariţiei cu National Book Award for Nonfiction, ajungînd în scurt timp bestseller internaţional.

Patti Smith zastanawiała się, czy nie zostać malarką, ale ostatecznie uznała, że nie ma do tego drygu. A jednak Obłokobujanie to obraz namalowany słowami – jest w nim czułość i wrażliwość poetki, bogactwo szczegółów właściwe dziełom flamandzkich mistrzów i odrobina szaleństwa nowojorskiej bohemy.
Autorka Poniedziałkowych dzieci zastrzega, że również w tej książce wszystko jest prawdą. Pierwszy egzemplarz podarowała ojcu. Zdążył przeczytać, zanim umarł. Powiedział swej córce, że dobrze się spisała.
Obłokobujanie to prozatorsko-poetycka opowieść o stawaniu się artystką.

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.