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hayyyyyden's review against another edition
emotional
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5.0
mkourafas's review against another edition
4.0
Smith describes the simplicities of life in the same manner as the big moments. I felt compelled to slow down and appreciate my surroundings. To think about what it means to be young at this moment in time. A book I’ll carry with me.
A beautiful writer and artist.
A beautiful writer and artist.
bibbel's review against another edition
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4.5
katiemichaele's review against another edition
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3.5
mipsukka's review against another edition
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5.0
giulspanza's review against another edition
4.0
“The blue star in the constellation of my personal cosmology” - That’s all I really have to say
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4.0
I don't believe I could tell you one Patti Smith song. Never a follower of punk rock, I was driven to this book through listening to a superb interview on WBUR, which, as usual, is a great source of cultural information.
I am so glad that I heard this segment, because the book is superb. Never before have I read, or heard, a more vivid description of the clarion call of art. Both Smith and her best friend/sometimes lover/alter ego, Robert Mapplethorpe, lived for art....truly, truly lived for art. They would starve, go unsheltered, and practically beg or busk just to be in the milieu of New York art-making in the '70's. Smith, in particular, was astonishingly well-read, and her life and her writing was infused with poetry long before she became a rock sensation. What a compelling book this is!
I am so glad that I heard this segment, because the book is superb. Never before have I read, or heard, a more vivid description of the clarion call of art. Both Smith and her best friend/sometimes lover/alter ego, Robert Mapplethorpe, lived for art....truly, truly lived for art. They would starve, go unsheltered, and practically beg or busk just to be in the milieu of New York art-making in the '70's. Smith, in particular, was astonishingly well-read, and her life and her writing was infused with poetry long before she became a rock sensation. What a compelling book this is!