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Inget omslag — Patti Smith: A book of days (Hardcover, 2022, Bloomsbury Publishing)

386 sivua : kuvitettu ; 19 cm, 386 sidor

På English

Publicerades 2022 av Bloomsbury Publishing.

With her 250 land camera, Patti Smith has chronicled her journeys in haunting Polaroid photographs since 1996. A writer's chair, a husband's saxophone, the beds of poets, the ateliers of artists. Pictures of life on and off the road, train stations, hotel interiors, obscure cafés; a notebook always nearby. In A Book of Days, Smith appends photographs from this body of work with eclectic snapshots from her daily life, as posted on Instagram: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, her kids, her boots, sacred talismans, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. More than a million followers have responded to Smith's unique aesthetic, her morning coffee, the books she's reading, the graves and monuments of beloved heroes, mavericks and saints. Within a calendar year, A Book of Days presents 366 miniature windows and dispatches into the world of the visionary writer, poet and performer. An inspirational map of a live devoted to art, …

With her 250 land camera, Patti Smith has chronicled her journeys in haunting Polaroid photographs since 1996. A writer's chair, a husband's saxophone, the beds of poets, the ateliers of artists. Pictures of life on and off the road, train stations, hotel interiors, obscure cafés; a notebook always nearby. In A Book of Days, Smith appends photographs from this body of work with eclectic snapshots from her daily life, as posted on Instagram: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, her kids, her boots, sacred talismans, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. More than a million followers have responded to Smith's unique aesthetic, her morning coffee, the books she's reading, the graves and monuments of beloved heroes, mavericks and saints. Within a calendar year, A Book of Days presents 366 miniature windows and dispatches into the world of the visionary writer, poet and performer. An inspirational map of a live devoted to art, a timeless offering, day by day, for deeply uncertain times.

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Tom Verlaine died and I had to read Patti Smith while spinning Marquee Moon.

(Yes, he's in it.)

As are so many others. A Book of Days is essentially that most pointless of printed books: an instagram feed put down on paper. Each day, a photo or a drawing or an image of some kind, and a short caption. Mostly either people Patti admires, or loves, or misses, or pictures of things she's found on her travels. Brief notes that are sometimes clichéd, and sometimes cut right through to something.

Few people could pull this off. Patti Smith, mostly, does. Despite the format - 366 days - it really works better read cover to cover, turning it - like many of her best songs, if not quite as effectively - into a celebration of influence, of how grounding in everything from simple household objects to mad poets can help …

Tom Verlaine died and I had to read Patti Smith while spinning Marquee Moon.

(Yes, he's in it.)

As are so many others. A Book of Days is essentially that most pointless of printed books: an instagram feed put down on paper. Each day, a photo or a drawing or an image of some kind, and a short caption. Mostly either people Patti admires, or loves, or misses, or pictures of things she's found on her travels. Brief notes that are sometimes clichéd, and sometimes cut right through to something.

Few people could pull this off. Patti Smith, mostly, does. Despite the format - 366 days - it really works better read cover to cover, turning it - like many of her best songs, if not quite as effectively - into a celebration of influence, of how grounding in everything from simple household objects to mad poets can help you fly.

Or something. Sorry. I can't write about Patti Smith drily.

Now go read her eulogy to Tom. And put on Marquee Moon.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/he-was-tom-verlaine

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Smith, Patti.
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