Devotion /
Smith, Patti,
Devotion / Patti Smith. - 93 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. - Why I write .
"The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page.
How the mind works -- Devotion -- A dream is not a dream.
"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.
9780300218626 0300218621 0300230680 9780300230680
2017933005
Smith, Patti--Authorship.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Authorship--Philosophy.
Essays.
Poetry.
Devotion / Patti Smith. - 93 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. - Why I write .
"The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page.
How the mind works -- Devotion -- A dream is not a dream.
"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.
9780300218626 0300218621 0300230680 9780300230680
2017933005
Smith, Patti--Authorship.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Authorship--Philosophy.
Essays.
Poetry.