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Smith was raised a Jehovah's Witness and had a strong religious upbringing and a Biblical education. She left organized religion as a teenager, however, because she felt it was too confining. In response to this experience, she wrote the line, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine", in her cover version of " Gloria" by Them. [123] She has described having an avid interest in Tibetan Buddhism around the age of 11 or 12, saying "I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer," but that as an adult she sees clear parallels between different forms of religion and has concluded that religious dogmas are "...man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not." [26] Smith’s photographs, drawings, and installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Coupled with her photography exhibit Higher Learning , Smith received an honorary degree from the University of Parma, Italy, and an honorary doctorate in Euro-American Literature from Padova University. She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2019. At this early age, Smith was exposed to her first records, including Shrimp Boats by Harry Belafonte, Patience and Prudence's The Money Tree, and Another Side of Bob Dylan, which her mother gave her. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964 and, following graduation, began work in a factory. [1] [18] She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and placed her for adoption. [18] She later entered Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey.

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In 1967, Smith left Glassboro State College and moved to Manhattan in New York City, where she met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe while working at a bookstore with friend and poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with poverty and Mapplethorpe's sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most influential and important people in her life, and referred to him as "the artist of my life" in her book Just Kids. Smith won the prestigious 2010 National Book Award for her bestselling memoir Just Kids , which chronicles her deep friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the evolution of their work. Her books of nonfiction and poetry include Witt (1973) , Babel (1978) , Woolgathering (1992) , Auguries of Innocence (2005) , The Coral Sea (2012) , Collected Lyrics, 1970 – 2015 (2015), M Train (2015), Devotion (2017) , and Year of the Monkey (2019) . A Book of Days, featuring 365 images and reflections, will be published in November 2022. 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] Smith is telling it her way, but also in the ancient way. It’s recognizable to readers for its mythic proportion, accessible to all kinds of people for its brevity and intensity—and yet, it’s still distinctly Patti Smith.”—Megan Volpert, PopMatters In 2010, Smith had a brief cameo in Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme, which was first screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. [49]Florence & The Machine, High As Hope album review: Calm after chaos". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022 . Retrieved June 29, 2018.

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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: Performing on Saturday Night Live in 1976. Photograph: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty ImagesHattenstone, Simon (May 25, 2013). "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". The Guardian . Retrieved March 23, 2020. 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. Steve, I feel that you were rather harsh in your "remembrance". of Robert Brustein. First and foremost, he was a… Video of Smith's speech". Archived from the original on October 28, 2021 . Retrieved July 15, 2011– via YouTube. Also in 2012, Smith recorded a cover of Io come persona by Italian singer-songwriter Giorgio Gaber. [63] [64]

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Pratt Institute's 2010 Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall". Pratt.edu. April 28, 2010 . Retrieved July 15, 2011. Robertson, Jessica (2007). "Exclusive Interview with Patti Smith". Spinner. AOL. Archived from the original on May 16, 2007 . Retrieved February 4, 2008. Stipe, Michael (1998). Two Times Intro: On the Road With Patti Smith. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-81572-7.Petrusich, Amanda (December 10, 2016). "A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize". The New Yorker. Patti Smith Comforts New York, Plays First-Ever Show at Capitol Theatre". American Songwriter. March 4, 2022 . Retrieved March 7, 2022. Sur les Traces". Trolley Gallery Books. Trolley Gallery. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011 . Retrieved July 20, 2010. Bigelow, Catherine (January 21, 2019). "Patti Smith and bowling party highlight Fog Design + Art week". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved August 29, 2022. This is what Smith does to her devoted readers--she provokes memory, isolation, and the desire to make something out of the mundane. . . . Devotion, though a departure from her previous books, does not deviate from Smith's remarkable gift."--Jerilyn Jordan, Detroit Metro Times

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