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Tarr, Joe (May 30, 2008). The Words and Music of Patti Smith. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-99411-2. A triptych of compact, heartfelt essays on discovery, solitude and writing."--Darragh McManus, Irish Independent

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Smith, Patti (2002). "Song of the Week: Dancing Barefoot". Archived from the original on January 12, 2008 . Retrieved February 26, 2008. Carson, Tom (January 29, 2010). "The Night Belongs to Us". The New York Times . Retrieved February 10, 2010. Goddard, Simon (May 1, 2006). The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life (3rded.). Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 1-905287-14-3 . Retrieved April 8, 2014.Columbia's 2022 Honorary Degree Recipients Announced". Columbia University in The City of New York. April 15, 2022 . Retrieved May 28, 2022. Perhaps what Devotion teaches us most easily is the virtue of hubris: “But slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art, drawing me from the halls of a favored museum to my own drafting table. […] That is the decisive power of a singular work: a call to action. And I, time and again, am overcome with the hubris to believe I can answer that call” (92). It’s hubris to write a short story in answer to the call in one’s heart. It’s hubris moreover to analyze one’s own short story for signs of the writerly. Of course, as the critic, to comment on her commentary about her own story is a feat that takes place at a dizzying distance. In our human folly, we realize we have hardly any choice — for the world is right there around us, and how dare we not respond to it?

Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and

I hate it when she says that … Mom, of course you are an activist!’ … Patti with Jesse Paris Smith. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading . . . It's a privilege to spend any time with Patti Smith, however brief."--Suzi Feay, Financial Times Of her effort to write about writing, we might say that Smith ends up saying what a lot of writers who write about writing might say: that it is a calling, that it is done out of necessity, that it aims to improve the world, that it aims to show the best of its author, that it’s hard, that it’s joyous, that it’s under the influence of everything in the author’s life, and that it’s an influence on everything in the author’s life. The middle of the book contains Smith’s first published piece of fiction, a long, dreamlike, and rather tedious short story entitled “Devotion” where the image of the ice skater and Simone Weil will improbably morph into a story about a feisty young woman who also skates and has a slightly creepy affair with a starchy older man. It’s supposed to represent passion overcoming reason, or something- –the billowing steam of pseudo-romantic clichés (“-I belong to no one, she said defiantly. -No one? He smiled, unbuttoning her sweater.”) bored me to wooziness. Any story written on a European train and apparently inspired by soaking up the ancient bohemian atmosphere of Paris and London ought to be way more alluring than this.Smith’s photographs, drawings, and installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Coupled with her photography exhibit Higher Learning , Smith received an honorary degree from the University of Parma, Italy, and an honorary doctorate in Euro-American Literature from Padova University. She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2019. patti smith: interview w/ _newsweek_ 12/19/75". Oceanstar.com. December 29, 1975 . Retrieved September 4, 2016.

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Florence & The Machine, High As Hope album review: Calm after chaos". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022 . Retrieved June 29, 2018. By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. A master of poetic innovation, Smith takes her style to the next level in this slim volume."--Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic Later in 1969, Smith performed one night in Cowboy Mouth, [23] a play she co-wrote with Sam Shepard. The published play's notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow". She wrote several poems about Shepard and her relationship with him, including "for sam shepard" [24] and "Sam Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)", that were published in Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class & Other Plays (1976).

I wonder how it was, trying to make it as a female artist in a society dominated by men. Her beatnik mentors, including William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg (who chatted her up when he thought she was a boy) were all men who wrote about each other. “You have to look at these people in the context of the times they lived. Gender identification was very strong then. But William and Allen were both homosexuals, at a time when it was looked upon as a disease or an aberration. The openness we have now came upon the shoulders of people like them.” Following the death of her husband in 1994, Smith began devoting time to what she terms "pure photography", a method of capturing still objects without using a flash. [57] In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the U.S., Camera Solo. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as "a room of one's own", and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography. [57] The exhibition featured artifacts that were everyday items or places of significance to artists Smith admires, including Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, and William Blake. In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival. [58] Wenner, Jann (November 3, 2005). "Bono Interview". Rolling Stone. No.986. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008 . Retrieved February 15, 2008. Vulliamy, Ed (June 3, 2005). "Some give a song. Some give a life..." The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved February 8, 2008. Tayla, Alican; Çiğdem Öztürk, Yücel Göktürk (November 2007). "Bir Kamu Çalışanı Olarak". Roll. Istanbul, Turkey (123): 28. ISSN 1307-4628.

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