Devotion (Why I Write)

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The Andy Warhol Museum Announces Patti Smith Performance and Retrospective Exhibition" (PDF). The Andy Warhol Museum. May 3, 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 31, 2006 . Retrieved March 19, 2008. Margolis, Lynn (September 20, 2002). "Patti Smith Plays 'Messenger' ". Rolling Stone. New York City: Wenner Media. Archived from the original on September 24, 2017 . Retrieved September 24, 2017. Smith premiered two new protest songs in London in September 2006. [104] Louise Jury, writing in The Independent, characterized them as "an emotional indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy". The song "Qana" [105] was about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of Qana. "Without Chains" [106] is about Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen who was born and raised in Germany, held at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp for four years. Jury's article quotes Smith as saying:

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Her musings that are actually nonfiction actually blew me out of the water, by the way. I guess that’s why I’m a wee bit sad when it comes to the fact that she didn’t incorporate more of herself into this, although I do think I understand what she was going for. I didn’t like the short story though, to be honest. I absolutely hate notions of romance and this was with a sixteen year old girl trying to have an affair with an almost forty-year-old man. I don’t like pedophilia, sorry. Overall Thoughts Columbia's 2022 Honorary Degree Recipients Announced". Columbia University in The City of New York. April 15, 2022 . Retrieved May 28, 2022. Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. ”—Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free.” This is what Smith does to her devoted readers—she provokes memory, isolation, and the desire to make something out of the mundane. . . . Devotion, though a departure from her previous books, does not deviate from Smith’s remarkable gift.”—Jerilyn Jordan, Detroit Metro TimesJury, Louise (March 25, 2006). "Jewish Pressure Drives Gaza Play Out of New York". The Independent. London: Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original on July 21, 2009 . Retrieved February 26, 2009.

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Hattenstone, Simon (May 25, 2013). "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". The Guardian . Retrieved March 23, 2020. Patti Smith Talks 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Finale Song: "A Dream Come True" ". Pitchfork. August 24, 2015 . Retrieved August 24, 2015. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.In the short fiction of Devotion, she sometimes inserts a cliché. Smith knows when she’s inserting clichés and favors them because of her profound love of detective stories. In detective stories, you can always find clichés because the truth is that often times it’s enough to say “the man sat down in the chair”. We don’t always need to know what kind of man nor do we need to know what kind of chair, or how he sat. At other times, the telling detail is a more psychological one that paints no proper image at all: “He was a solitary man, in his late thirties, of unusual control, hardy and virile, yet uniquely sensitive, having already negotiated the spectrum of academics, risk, art, and excess” (45). This is likewise an apt description of Smith, though she is twice as old as her character. Smith is telling it her way, but also in the ancient way. It’s recognizable to readers for its mythic proportion, accessible to all kinds of people for its brevity and intensity—and yet, it’s still distinctly Patti Smith.”—Megan Volpert, PopMatters a b "National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 26, 2012. (With acceptance speech, interview, and reading.) In Devotion, [Smith] starkly shares and uncovers, through a spare, haunting prose, the reasons she is compelled to write; so evocative is Smith’s writing that we’re compelled to read it as her voices transfixes us with its bell-like clarity and ringing passion.”—Henry Carrigan, No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music Most of the book’s first section describes Smith’s listless encounter with her Parisian publisher Gallimard, where she obliquely refers to conversations with journalists and takes a trip through the august publisher’s headquarters to do some high-culture tourism, seeing the place where Yukio Mishima once sat, the room where Camus once had an office, and tour a garden that only reminds her of OTHER gardens, including one where “Goethe was said to have planted a gingko tree.” We hear about her mornings at the Café de Flore, what she eats: “the eggs are perfectly round, set upon a perfectly round slab of ham” and what she thinks about what she eats: “I marvel how genius manifests, in a plate of eggs or the center of a rink.”

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An enchanting peek into the mysterious ways of creativity, as Smith immerses in her beloved French literary classics and cites the everyday encounters that can spark inspiration."--Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press Patti Smith's Gloria inspired Madonna". Yahoo! News. April 17, 2012. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012 . Retrieved June 10, 2012. Vulliamy, Ed (June 3, 2005). "Some give a song. Some give a life..." The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved February 8, 2008. Smith was set to be awarded receive the International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis in November 2020; however, the ceremony was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [80] In 2022, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University. [81] Also in 2022, Smith was named an Officer of the French Legion of Honor ( Officier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur). The award was presented to her at the "Night of Ideas" cultural celebration in Brooklyn, by the French ambassador to the United States, Philippe Étienne. [82] A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture's beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.Patti Smith – Land: Horses/Land Of A Thousand Dances/La Mer (De)". Paste. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 . Retrieved October 28, 2015. Poetic singer songwriter Joustene Lorenz also cites Patti Smith as a 'powerful influence' on her life and music. [101] Activism [ edit ] Smith in 2018 Murray, Noel (May 28, 2015). "60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 28, 2015. Mirabelli, Manon L. (September 26, 2015). "Ralph Nader's American Museum of Tort Law opens in Winsted". New Haven Register . Retrieved October 19, 2015.

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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. Stipe, Michael (1998). Two Times Intro: On the Road With Patti Smith. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-81572-7.The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. Patti Smith: Advice to the young. Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video interview by Louisiana Channel. Mapplethorpe's photographs of Smith became the covers for Smith's albums, and they remained lifelong friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989. [19] Smith's book and album The Coral Sea is an homage to Mapplethorpe and Just Kids tells the story of their relationship. She also wrote essays for several of Mapplethorpe's books, including one, at Mapplethorpe's request, for his posthumous Flowers. [20]