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From the National Book Award winning author of Just Kids an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of caf s and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world M Train is a journey through eighteen stations It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf 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 We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations from Frida Kahlo s Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer s society in Berlin from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York s Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima Woven throughout are reflections on the writer s craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black and white Polaroids taken by Smith herself M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant multiplatform artists at work today. New Read [ M Train ] by [ Patti Smith ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I can t believe Patti Smith wrote a book about drinking black coffee and watching serial crime dramas and it s the best thing I ve ever read.Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs allPatti Smith, M TrainMy second Patti Smith memoir This one wasexperimental and nonlinear than Just Kids which still wasn t exactly linear It was filled with dreams, detective shows, talismans, cats, constant travels, coffee,coffee, missing things, memories, loose threads, graveyards, hotels, photographs, and miles and miles of beautiful, lyrical Patti Smith pLife is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in ...I listen to Patti Smith s audible The very first thing I notice was her voice Her raspy eastern accent was mesmerizing As I was walking, I could picture Patti in the cafe she sat drinking coffee She says It s not so easy writing about nothing Easy or not I had a warm smile on my face listening to everything she had to say at times aching and soooo loving this woman There is a mystery about Patti Smith which adds to her beauty Her mind is fascinating A coffee drinker, loner, I listen to Patti Smith s audible The very first thing I notice was her voice Her raspy eastern accent was mesmerizing As I was walking, I could picture Patti in the cafe she sat drinking coffee She says It s not so easy writing about nothing Easy or not I had a warm smile on my face listening to...Sometimes the right book finds us at the right time For me this was the book No linear, no plot to speak of, just musings and meanderings of a creative woman Search for the perfect coffee, caf s, Hurricane Sandy, her obsession with detective shows and the way she enters into the lives of authors and novels At times her writing is poetic, at others very poignant, especially when thinking or remembering her husband, Fred and her children when they were young Her photography, travels, conferen Sometimes the right book finds us at the right time For me this was the book No linear, no plot to speak of, just musings and meanderings of a creative woman Search for the perfect coffee, caf s, Hurricane Sandy, her obsession with detective shows and the way she enters into the lives of authors and novels At times her writing is poetic, at others very poignant, especially when thinking or...Reading the lovely Proustian interlude that is M Train, I felt like a shadow angel trailing Patti Smith, from Caf Ino down the block from her New York apartment to the far flung places in her past and present that twirl like ribbons in her poetry, her songs, her art M Train is a meditation on this artist s life,kaleidoscope than memoir, a shifting wonder that spills pieces of colored glass memories The clarity of Patti Smith s language, the fragility of her voice, made me want to wrap Reading the lovely Proustian interlude that is M Train, I felt like a shadow angel trailing Patti Smith, from Caf Ino down the block from her New York apartment to the far flung places in her past and present that twirl like ribbons in her poetry, her songs, her art M Train is a meditation on this artist s life,kaleidoscope than memoir, a shifting wonder that spills pieces of colored glass memories The clarity of Patti Smith s...Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch once said in an interview that if all culture breaks down, he s following Patti Smith Much of the pleasure of reading Smith s nostalgic M Train is that it offers fascinating insights into her interior life, her dreams, her quixotic travel adventures, her literary obsessions listed in my Comment below , and her minimalist, bohemian tastes for such things as black coffee, brown bread with olive oil, Polaroids, word games, moleskines, detective stories, and her favorite bla Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch once said in an interview that if all culture breaks down, he s following Patti Smith Much of the pleasure of reading Smith s nostalgic M Train is that it offers fascinating insights into her interior life, her dreams, her quixotic travel adventures, her literary obsessions listed in my Comment below , and her minimalist, bohemian tastes for such things as black coffee, brown bread with olive oil, Polaroids, word games, moleskines, detective stories, and he...What s the point of reading books Do they really help Sometimes compulsively turning pages to lift your mood you have to wonder I think often of a line I read once in an Orhan Pamuk novel Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow That hurts so much that you feel there must be something to it.It s been quite some time now since the fascination and joy I get from books could be ascribed to youthful enthusiasm, but I still worry that I ll reach some older, wis What s the point of reading books Do they really help Sometimes compulsively turning pages to lift your mood you have to wonder I think often of a line I read once in an Orhan Pamuk novel Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow That hurts so much that you feel there must be something to ...In my life I have had various musical periods where I would want to listen to one artist exclusively for a period of time, exhausting myself on listening over and over again to all the media I could get There was a long Led Zeppelin period back in HS, also a Doors period and The Police In college I had a REM period and U2 At other times, sporadically over the years I have experienced this binge listening and I always enjoy the time, its like meeting a new friend and wanting to spend all of yo In my life I have had various musical periods where I would want to listen to one artist exclusively for a period of time, exhausting myself on listeni... M Train by Patti Smith is a collection of stories by the poet laureate of punk rock Patricia Lee Patti Smith is an American singer songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.To be honest, I have been a Patti Smith fan since 1978 I have all her albums, seen her in concert, and own several of her books including number 86 of 100 of WIIT I was really surprised at how well received and the M Train by Patti Smith is a collection of stories by the poet laureate of punk rock Patricia Lee Patti Smith is an American singer songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.To be honest, I have been a Patti Smith fan since 1978 I have all her albums, seen her in concert, and own several of her books including number 86 of 100 of WIIT I was really surprised at how well received and the broad appeal of Just Kids and I was interested in seeing how well M Train would fare I waited a while to start this book wanting to hold on to the idea of a new Patti Smith book before risking disappointment I saw one ...A very quiet, elegiac book, memories linked one to the next that s the train, the M train In tone it reminded meof the works of W.G Sebald than of her earlier book Just Kids It has none of the exuberance of that memoir of youth in which she recaptured the tone, the feeling, of youth This is the voice, the mind, of an older person looking back through a tangible scrim of loss And yet, her memories are very much a child showing you the contents of his pockets, his array of child t...

M Train
  • English
  • 17 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 256 pages
  • 1101875100
  • Patti Smith
  • M Train