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Patti Smith ger ut en ny bok
Publicerad: 13 april 2015 av Filip Hiltmann
Way Out West-aktuella Patti Smith ger ut en ny bok.
2010 gav Patti Smith ut memoaren Just Kids vilken behandlade hennes relation med fotografen Robert Mapplethorpe och bemöttes med hyllningar från en enad kritikerkår. 2012 berättade Smith att hon jobbade på en uppföljare, något som nu har blivit verklighet. Den 6 oktober i år landar den nya memoaren M Train – som även innehåller polaroidbilder tagna av Smith – i butikerna. Bokens handling går att få ett smakprov på nedan.
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.
Patti Smith är även festivalaktuell då hon kommer att framföra albumet Horses i sin helhet på årets upplaga av Way Out West.