Patti Smith

 

Just Kids

Courageous, vulnerable, humble, irreverent, and unwavering in her commitment to art, Patti Smith recalls her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City of the 1960s, capturing the spirit of the age and the sweetness and tragedy of their time together.

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M Train

In this memoir, artist, musician, and writer Patti Smith once again walks the streets of New York City and sits in a Greenwich Village coffee shop while her imagination ranges through time and space in this slow and bittersweet meditation on art, love, loss, and aging.

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Year of the Monkey

After performing at the Fillmore in San Francisco, ruminating on friends who have passed, seventy-year-old Patti Smith traveled down the coast to Santa Cruz, California. Her stay at the Dream Inn set the stage for her cross-country road trip, which she writes about in this memoir, but her story is as much a trip through her imagination as through the country. The sign above her Santa Cruz hotel beckons her to dream, and she accepts the invitation as she recounts her trip, slipping effortlessly from waking “reality” to dream state, with jarring shifts in consciousness and glimpses into other possible worlds. Smith’s 2016 memoir posits that “[t]here are many truths and there are many worlds” and that the miraculous is accessible via our imaginations.​

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