Patti Smith - A Book of Days (MINT CONDITION) - 2022

A DEEPLY MOVING AND BRILLIANTLY IDIOSYNCRATIC VISUAL BOOK OF DAYS -
by legendary Patricia 'Patti' Lee Smith, legendary American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer.

Featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith’s singular aesthetic, inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.

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'With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful—and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process - A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist’s life.
In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message 'Hello Everybody!' Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she’s reading, the graves of beloved heroes - William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith’s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother’s keychain, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.'

Random House, New York. 2022. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 140 x 185 mm. 388 pages. Photos: Patti Smith. Text in English.

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'Patti Smith's 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, Because the Night', co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number five on the UK Singles Chart.
In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, written to fulfill a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner and friend. She is ranked 47th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of all Time, published in 2010, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2011.
Smith was born on December 30, 1946, at Grant Hospital in the Lincoln Park section of Chicago, to Beverly Smith, a jazz singer turned waitress, and Grant Smith, a Honeywell machinist. Her family is of partially Irish ancestry, and Patti is the eldest of four children, with siblings Linda, Kimberly, and Todd.
When Smith was four, the family moved from Chicago to the Germantown section of Philadelphia,
then to Pitman, New Jersey, and finally settled in the Woodbury Gardens section of Deptford Township, New Jersey.
At an early age, Smith was exposed to music, including the albums Shrimp Boats by Harry Belafonte, The Money Tree by Patience and Prudence, and Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's fourth album, released in 1964, which her mother gave her.
In 1964, Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School, and began working in a factory.
She briefly attended Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, in Glassboro, New Jersey.
In 1969, Smith went to Paris with her sister, and started busking and doing performance art. When Smith returned to Manhattan, she lived at the Hotel Chelsea with Robert Mapplethorpe. They frequented Max's Kansas City on Park Avenue, and Smith provided the spoken word soundtrack for Sandy Daley's art film Robert Having His Nipple Pierced, starring Mapplethorpe. The same year, Smith appeared with Jayne County in Jackie Curtis's play Femme Fatale. She also starred in Anthony Ingrassia's play Island. As a member of the Poetry Project, she spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing.
In 1969, Smith also performed in the one-act play Cowboy Mouth, which she co-wrote with Sam Shepard. The published play's notes call for 'a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow'. She wrote several poems about Shepard and her relationship with him, including 'for sam shepard' and 'Sam Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)', that were published in Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class & Other Plays (1976).
On February 10, 1971, Smith, accompanied by Lenny Kaye on electric guitar, opened for Gerard Malanga, which was her first public poetry performance.
Smith was briefly considered as lead singer for Blue Öyster Cult. She contributed lyrics to several Blue Öyster Cult songs, including 'Debbie Denise', which was inspired by her poems 'In Remembrance of Debbie Denise', 'Baby Ice Dog', 'Career of Evil', 'Fire of Unknown Origin', 'The Revenge of Vera Gemini', on which she performs duet vocals, and 'Shooting Shark'. At the time, she was romantically involved with Allen Lanier, Blue Öyster Cult's keyboardist. During these years, Smith was also a rock music journalist, writing periodically for Rolling Stone and Creem.
In 1973, Smith teamed up again with musician and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later added Richard Sohl on piano. The trio developed into a full band with the addition of Ivan Král on guitar and bass and Jay Dee Daugherty on drums. Kral was a refugee from Czechoslovakia who had moved to the US in 1966 with his parents, who were both diplomats. After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Kral decided not to return.
Financed by Sam Wagstaff, the band recorded their first single, 'Hey Joe/Piss Factory' in 1974. The A-side was a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken word piece about Patty Hearst, a fugitive heiress. The B-side describes the helpless alienation Smith felt while working on a factory assembly line and the salvation she dreams of achieving by escaping to New York City. In a 1996 interview on artistic influences during her younger years, Smith said, 'I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend.'
Later the same year, she performed 'I Wake Up Screaming', a poem, on The Whole Thing Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control, an album by The Doors' Ray Manzarek.'
(Wikipedia)