Bread of Angels

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'<BR>'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times, 'Books of the Year'<BR>'Quietly sacred, utterly beautiful' Service95<BR>'Smith has already issued a handful of memoirs over the decades. Bread of Angels feels like the big one' TLS<BR><BR>A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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'.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

In diesem berührend poetischen Werk ehrt Patti Smith, Autorin, Rockpoetin und Ikone der dynamischen Punk-Szene New Yorks in den 70er Jahren, das Andenken ihres Weggefährten, des Fotografen Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Bildgewaltig beschreiben die Texte in 'The Coral Sea - Das Korallenmeer' die Seereise eines Mannes unter dem Kreuz des Südens. Metaphorische und traumhaft schöne Reflexionen über sein Leben wechseln mit Beschreibungen seiner Obsessionen und seines Kampfes gegen AIDS. Die Geschichte einer Metamorphose basiert auf Patti Smiths' jahrzehntelanger Freundschaft mit dem legendären Fotografen und Künstler Robert Mapplethorpe. Sie begleitet ihn als jungen Mann, als stilsicheren Künstler und auf seinem Weg in den Tod.Die erstmals auf Deutsch vorliegende Neuausgabe von 'The Coral Sea - Das Korallenmeer' beinhaltet auch Gedichte, die Patti Smith nach dem Erscheinen der Erstausgabe für Mapplethorpe geschrieben hat - bewegende Meisterwerke, die bisher nicht veröffentlicht wurden. Fotografien von Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith und Lynn Davis begleiten die Texte.

Patti Smiths persönliche und poetische Bestandsaufnahme eines besonderen Jahres2016, das Jahr des Affen, war ein schwieriges Jahr: Am Ende heißt der Präsident Trump. Dabei beginnt es für Patti Smith mit drei Konzerten im Fillmore West, dem Hippie-Tempel in San Francisco. Doch die alten Freunde sind nicht mehr dabei. Auf einer langen Rückreise von West nach Ost besucht Smith sie: Sandy Perlman, der im VW Bus zu ihren Konzerten kam, oder Sam Shepard, ihren ersten Freund. Sie liest Bolaño, sucht Zeichen und sammelt mysteriöse Bonbonpapiere am Strand. Am Ende jenes Jahres feiert sie ihren 70. Geburtstag.Fesselnd, nachdenklich und überraschend humorvoll, illustriert von Smiths charakteristischen Polaroids, ist 'Das Jahr des Affen' ein weiterer Beweis für die unerschöpfliche Energie und widerständische Kreativität der 'Godmother of Punk'.Mit einem für diese Ausgabe erweiterten Epilog'Patti Smith hat ein bemerkenswertes Gespür für den Sound und den Zauber von Worten; ihre Texte sind lyrisch und bildhaft zugleich.' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids<BR><BR>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER<BR><BR>“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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

National Best Seller <BR><BR>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.”<BR><BR> 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 of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. <BR><BR>Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. <BR><BR>Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

Endlich - die Fortsetzung von 'Just Kids' In 'M Train' erzählt Patti Smith von ihrer Ehe mit Fred Sonic Smith, von ihren Lieblingsbüchern und von Dingen und Menschen, die sie im Laufe ihres Lebens begleitet haben. Sie nimmt den Leser mit in unzählige Cafés, in denen sie schreibt, zeichnet und nachdenkt - über alte Zeiten, die Gegenwart und ihre Träume. Auf den Spuren seelenverwandter Künstler begibt sie sich auf spektakuläre Reisen. Sie erzählt über jene Autoren wie Haruki Murakami oder Roberto Bolaño, in deren Bücher sie immer wieder eintaucht, von den Krimiserien, nach denen sie süchtig ist, und dem geheimnisvollen Continental Drift Club, zu dessen 23. Mitglied sie eher zufällig ernannt wurde.Mit zahlreichen von Patti Smith aufgenommenen Polaroidfotos und einer für die Taschenbuchausgabe zusätzlich geschriebenen Geschichte.'M Train ist das Selbstportrait einer Künstlerin. Es ist ein Tagebuch, ein Traumjournal, ein Fotoalbum, ein Liebesbrief.'Deutschlandfunk

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids<BR><BR>'Magical' GUARDIAN<BR>'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE<BR>'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'Her willingness to look closely at life's closing chapters makes for a magical book' WASHINGTON POST, 'The 10 books to read in September'<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. <BR><BR>Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world. <BR><BR>Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

“Patti Smith is not only a great performer, she is a shaman-that is, someone in touch with other levels of reality.” - William S. BurroughsInitially 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.