M Train de Patti Smith

M Train: Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Autor Patti Smith

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 aug 2016

Notăm cu interes ritualul matinal al unei legende: aburul unei cafele negre într-o cafenea minusculă din Greenwich Village, unde un carnețel de note devine receptacolul întregii lumi. În M Train, Patti Smith nu ne oferă o cronologie liniară a succesului, ci o hartă subiectivă a obsesiilor și a dorului. Reținem fluiditatea cu care proza sa glisează de la realitatea imediată a New York-ului la peisajele selenare ale Islandei sau la intimitatea Casei Azul din Mexic. Considerăm această lucrare o „foaie de parcurs” a spiritului creator, unde vizitele la mormintele unor mentori spirituali precum Genet, Plath sau Rimbaud nu sunt acte de doliu, ci de comuniune artistică. Ca și Year of the Monkey de Patti Smith, acest volum transformă documentele și observațiile cotidiene într-o narațiune onirică, explorând granița fragilă dintre amintire și reverie. Dacă în Just Kids autoarea evoca ascensiunea artistică alături de Robert Mapplethorpe, aici ne confruntăm cu o maturitate reflexivă, marcată de absența soțului ei, Fred Sonic Smith, și de fragilitatea unui bungalow din Far Rockaway în fața uraganului Sandy. Stilul este unul cinematic, punctat de fotografiile Polaroid alb-negru care ancorează momentele de melancolie în concret. Este o meditație profundă despre pierdere și consolare, despre cum arta și literatura oferă structură unei vieți dedicate căutării.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408867709
ISBN-10: 1408867702
Pagini: 275
Dimensiuni: 130 x 192 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Seria Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută mai mult decât o biografie clasică; este un omagiu adus procesului creativ și micilor ritualuri zilnice. Veți câștiga o perspectivă intimă asupra minții unei artiste care vede poezie în fiecare ceașcă de cafea și în fiecare călătorie solitară. Este un companion ideal pentru momentele de reflecție, oferind o lecție despre cum poți găsi frumusețea și sensul chiar și în urma unor pierderi iremediabile.

Despre autor

Patricia Lee Smith (născută la 30 decembrie 1946) este o figură emblematică a mișcării punk rock din New York, celebrată ca „poeta laureată a punk-ului”. A debutat în 1975 cu albumul Horses, fuzionând rock-ul cu poezia într-o manieră revoluționară. Dincolo de cariera muzicală de succes, marcată de hitul „Because the Night” și includerea în Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Smith s-a impus ca o scriitoare de forță. Volumul său de memorii Just Kids a câștigat National Book Award în 2010. Recunoscută de Ministerul Culturii din Franța ca Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, ea continuă să locuiască în New York, fiind un artist multidisciplinar activ.

Descriere

Featuring a new postscript including five new photos from Patti Smith

From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through 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, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

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.

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.

Recenzii

This book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture
Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached
A tender, harrowing, often hilarious portrait of young lovers forging their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists
The most beautiful, incredible autobiography - it will make you ache for a time and a place that you probably never knew, New York in the 1970s
She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion
She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion

Caracteristici

Will appeal to fans of Just Kids and Bob Dylan's Chronicles, as well as fans of the works of Roberto Bolano and Haruki Murakami - and the Jim Jarmusch film Coffee & Cigarettes

Notă biografică

Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honour given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith married Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.

Descriere scurtă

REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS 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. 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. 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 artists at work today.