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A Book of Days by Patti Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for ...Show more
Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that gr ...Show more
Devotion by Patti Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Why I Write Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention 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 audi ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
$16.95 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process 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? ...Show more
EARLY WORK by SMITH PATTI
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Patti Smith - performer, poet, songwriter, playwright, painter - changed the face of rock n roll with her beat-derived poetry. For the first time Patti Smith's early lyrics, poems and prose have been collected together in Early Work 1970-1979.
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: near fine
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf. where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspir ...Show more
Patti Smith Collected Lyrics 1970-2015 by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
An American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer. Her work is rooted in poetry, which she infused in her 1975 landmark album Horses. A declaration of existence, Horses was described as 'three chords merged with the power of the word'; it was graced with the now iconic portra ...Show more
Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers by Robert Mapplethorpe; Patti Smith (Text by)
$89.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Among the motifs considered to be typically Mapplethorpe--i.e. nudes, portraits, black men, and the New York gay scene--flowers had a firmly-established (albeit less spectacular) position. The first date from the seventies; the last were taken shortly before his death. Design was also dominant here; the ...Show more
The Coral Sea by Patti Smith
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Before the National Book Award-winning Just Kids, Patti Smith addressed the life and passing of her intimate friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Through the linked pieces of The Coral Sea, Patti Smith honours her comrade-in-arms Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). She tells the story of a man on an o ...Show more