Binding: Paperback
Description: Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought - provoking enough to deserve re - reading. Suzi Feay Financial Times Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. Katherine Cooper Hyperallergic 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 a National Book Award winning author first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession a young skater who lives for her art a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus's house and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima Nabokov and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil's grave in a lonely cemetery hours from London and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano's novels. Whether writing in a caf or a train Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing. The Why I Write series is based on the Windham Campbell Lectures delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
Title: Devotion
Author(s): Smith Patti
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300240221
Pages: 120 Pages, 22 B-W Illus.
Publication Date: 9/4/2018
Series: Why I Write
Category: Gender Studies: Women