M train

R$ 165,90

Sinopse

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 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 notbooks. 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 multiplatform artists at work today.

Participantes

Autor: Patti Smith

Autor

PATTI SMITH

Patti Smith nasceu em 1946 em Chicago, Estados Unidos. Antes de completar 21 anos, mudou-se para Nova York, onde conheceu Robert Mapplethorpe, seu companheiro e amigo de muitos anos. Patti ganhou reconhecimento nos anos 1970 por sua fusão revolucionária de poesia com rock, e seu disco Horses, tido como precursor do punk, é considerado um dos cem melhores álbuns de todos os tempos. Ela gravou uma série de discos e publicou livros de poesia como Babel e Auguries of Innocence. Em 1973, Patti expôs seus primeiros desenhos. Em 2008, a Fundação Cartier de Paris fez uma grande mostra com fotografias, instalações e desenhos da artista.