Devotion (Why I Write)

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In 2014, Smith offered her opinion on the sexualization of women in music. " Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge." Smith historically and presently declines to embrace feminism, saying, "I have a son and a daughter, people always talk to me about feminism and women's rights, but I have a son too—I believe in human rights." [129] Jury, Louise (September 9, 2006). "Patti Smith Rails Against Israel and US". The Independent. London: Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008 . Retrieved February 8, 2008. In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. [8] The book fulfilled a promise she made to her former long-time partner Robert Mapplethorpe. She is ranked 47th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, which was published in 2010 [9] and was also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize. By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. A master of poetic innovation, Smith takes her style to the next level in this slim volume."--Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic I wonder how it was, trying to make it as a female artist in a society dominated by men. Her beatnik mentors, including William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg (who chatted her up when he thought she was a boy) were all men who wrote about each other. “You have to look at these people in the context of the times they lived. Gender identification was very strong then. But William and Allen were both homosexuals, at a time when it was looked upon as a disease or an aberration. The openness we have now came upon the shoulders of people like them.”

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In 2015, writer Anwen Crawford observed that Smith's "attitude to genius seems pre-feminist, if not anti-feminist; there is no democratizing, deconstructing impulse in her work. True artists, for Smith, are remote, solitary figures of excellence, wholly dedicated to their art." [130] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Award 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. Bowie, Moby, Matthews Spark Tibet House Benefit". Billboard. February 27, 2001 . Retrieved September 24, 2019.

The middle of the book contains Smith’s first published piece of fiction, a long, dreamlike, and rather tedious short story entitled “Devotion” where the image of the ice skater and Simone Weil will improbably morph into a story about a feisty young woman who also skates and has a slightly creepy affair with a starchy older man. It’s supposed to represent passion overcoming reason, or something- –the billowing steam of pseudo-romantic clichés (“-I belong to no one, she said defiantly. -No one? He smiled, unbuttoning her sweater.”) bored me to wooziness. Any story written on a European train and apparently inspired by soaking up the ancient bohemian atmosphere of Paris and London ought to be way more alluring than this. Carson, Tom (January 29, 2010). "The Night Belongs to Us". The New York Times . Retrieved February 10, 2010. When I speak to Patti for a second time, it’s just me and her. I ask her how we can convince people of the climate emergency when so many are reluctant to make sacrifices, and during a period in which every concern, no matter how grave or altruistic, is reduced to a culture war. She says she’s never seen times like those we are living in. The lesson is obvious: that a writer draws on every detail of his or her life for the alchemical, often unconscious process of creation. But seeing the process in action is a profound experience. Smith's writing in the essays is as beautifully structured as her poetry."-- Publishers Weekly

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Costa Concordia was the set for a movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard". To Be A Travel Agent. Archived from the original on July 25, 2018 . Retrieved February 4, 2012. In March 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas and performed an anti-war concert. She subsequently wrote "Peaceable Kingdom", a song which was inspired by and is dedicated to Corrie. [109] In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying "Where is My Vote?" in a version of the song "People Have the Power". [110]A box set of Smith's work up to that time, The Patti Smith Masters, was released in 1996. In 2002, Smith released Land (1975–2002), a two-CD compilation that includes a cover of Prince's " When Doves Cry". Smith's solo art exhibition Strange Messenger was hosted at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on September 28, 2002. [37] 2004–2009 [ edit ] Smith performing at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona in 2007 Smith (left) with National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) president Jane Ciabattari and NBCC board member John Reed. Smith's memoir Just Kids was an NBCC autobiography finalist at the 2010 awards. [38] Smith performing at Haldern Pop in Germany in 2014

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Petrusich, Amanda (December 10, 2016). "A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize". The New Yorker.In 2018, Smith's concert-documentary film Horses: Patti Smith and her Band, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. [75] In addition, Smith narrated Darren Aronofsky's VR experience Spheres: Songs of Spacetime along with Millie Bobby Brown and Jessica Chastain. [76]

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Scaggs, Austin (October 6, 2004). "Q&A: Michael Stipe". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008 . Retrieved February 4, 2008. Murray, Noel (May 28, 2015). "60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 28, 2015. Smith was the subject of a 2008 documentary film by Steven Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Life. [44] A live album by Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea, was released in July 2008. On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in Florence, Smith played an open-air concert at Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier. [45] She contributed the introduction to Jessica Lange's book 50 Photographs, published in 2009. [46] 2010–present [ edit ] Bigelow, Catherine (January 21, 2019). "Patti Smith and bowling party highlight Fog Design + Art week". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved August 29, 2022.

Following the death of her husband in 1994, Smith began devoting time to what she terms "pure photography", a method of capturing still objects without using a flash. [57] In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the U.S., Camera Solo. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as "a room of one's own", and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography. [57] The exhibition featured artifacts that were everyday items or places of significance to artists Smith admires, including Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, and William Blake. In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival. [58] 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: The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.



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