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Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] "I didn't write it to be cathartic ," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to…. Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved.
Early life and education 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. The family was of part Irish ancestry, and Patti was the eldest of four children, with siblings Linda, Kimberly, and Todd. When Smith was four, the family moved from Chicago to the ...
M Train is Smith's second memoir, [1] following the 2010 National Book Award -winning Just Kids. [2] While Just Kids recounts Smith's early life, the beginning of her career and particularly her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, [3] M Train focuses on a later portion of her life, the period since the release of her debut album ...
Patti Smith, the first artist-in-residence at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, will give a special performance at the Downtown Sarasota campus on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. The one-hour performance, “An ...
The book also shares objects of significance to Smith, things once belonging to the many important people in her life who’ve died before her: her mother’s key chain, her father’s golf ball ...
The slim book consists of eleven semi-autobiographical prose poems, and was written while Smith was living in Michigan, largely out of the public eye. The poems are interspersed with black-and-white photographs. Contents "A Bidding" "The Woolgatherers" "Barndance" "Cowboy Truths" "Indian Rubies" "Drawing" "Art in Heaven" "Flying" "A Farewell"
171. ISBN. 978-0525657682. Year of the Monkey is a 2019 memoir by Patti Smith. [1] The work describes a single year in Smith's life, 2016, which she spent traveling on her own. [1] The book is part travelogue and part dream journal, as Smith often interrupts the narrative to describe her dreams. [2]
Photography. Partner (s) Patti Smith (1967–1970) David Croland (1970–1972) Sam Wagstaff (1972–1987) Website. mapplethorpe .org. Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( / ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs.