Devotion The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017
Series: Book 1 of 8 - Why I Write
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Signed on title page by Patti Smith.First Edition. Soiling to front and back boards. Very light signs of reading and handling wear. Dust jacket shows very minor signs of reading and handling wear. Soiling to covers. Old shop sticker attached to back cover, bottom middle.
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- Title
- Devotion The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture
- Author
- Smith, Patti
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover, 93 pages
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300218621
- ISBN 13
- 9780300218626
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 8: Why I Write
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, First Editions, Music, Poetry, Signed Books
“Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading.”―Suzi Feay, Financial Times
“Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing.”―Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic
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? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.
Patti Smith, a National Book Award–winning author, first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession―a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard, where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or on a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham–Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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