M Train
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (654 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101875100 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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L.K. said A good friend encouraged me to continue. I almost stopped halfway through. A good friend encouraged me to continue. "It gets better," she said. I continued because of that and because I have loved and respected Patti Smith's music and poetry since I was in my mid-teens. I was a charter member of her fan club in the mid-'70s. I also feel it's my responsibility as a committed reader to finish a book that's been written with grit and authenticity.It got a little better, but I continued to feel like I didn't really know where she was or who she was talking about a lot of the time. The. "It's not what she writes but how." according to MadDog2020. What sort of book is this? Nothing like "Just Kids." It’s not exactly a memoir and certainly not an autobiography. I’d say more than anything it’s a journal—some entries deal with recent events, some with events in the author’s earlier life, and some describe her fantasies and dream life. So, what’s it about? Certain themes occur and recur here—coffee, fascination with television police procedurals, foreign travel, and grief. The entries describe the life of an aging widow who lives alone with cats.. "More of Patti Smith to Savor" according to Holly W.S.. Another delicate and quiet memoir to savor by a mind and heart like no other. While 'Just Kids' traced her coming of age as an artist, this memoir shows us the far more hidden, interior life of someone keenly attuned to her experience in the world, her dreams, her memories, and what it all means to her as a wife, mother, artist and human. I really enjoyed this book, and will likely reread it before too long.
Indeed, Smith appears to take a disarming pleasure in exposing her own vulnerability She weaves these threads—loss, coffee, death, a beach cafe, dreams, pilgrimages, memory, childhood, a cowpoke—like the musical themes of a softly unfolding fugue, eventually coming to rest in a dream, one prefigured in an early passage of the book. Its episodes find Smith at home in Greenwich Village, on the road in Japan or London or Mexico City, looking back and forth across the days. As for the inconvenient aspects of travel—canceled flights, lost luggage, jet lag—they are, in their own ways, opportunities. Frida Kahlo’s crutches. This loose relationship to time allows her to appreciate aspects of the contemporary world through an anachronistic lens; it’s as if Smith is enamored with the present moment insomuch as it allows her access to the past Smith is all too aware that much of what gets lost is irreplaceable: ‘Please stay forever, I say to the
It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.. 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. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. 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. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. National Best Seller 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
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. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. . Smit