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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.

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Performing on Saturday Night Live in 1976. Photograph: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images 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 ] 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 Smith was born on December 30, 1946, at Grant Hospital in Chicago [5] [10] to Beverly Smith, a jazz singer turned waitress, and Grant Smith, a Honeywell machinist. [11] The family was of part Irish ancestry [12] and Patti was the eldest of four children, with siblings Linda, Kimberly, and Todd. [13] When Smith was four, the family moved from Chicago to the Germantown section of Philadelphia, [14] then to Pitman, New Jersey, [15] and finally settled in the Woodbury Gardens section of Deptford Township, New Jersey. [16] [17]Pratt Institute's 2010 Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall". Pratt.edu. April 28, 2010 . Retrieved July 15, 2011. Bowie, Moby, Matthews Spark Tibet House Benefit". Billboard. February 27, 2001 . Retrieved September 24, 2019. Alexander, Ella (April 2, 2014). "Patti Smith, self-confessed Rihanna fan, on the sexualisation of women in music: 'No one should allow themselves to be exploited' ". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022 . Retrieved June 1, 2017. Sturges, Fiona (September 18, 2019). "Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith review – memories of the magic and the mundane". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved April 7, 2020.

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When does it cease to be something beautiful, a faithful aspect of the heart, to become off-center, slightly off the axis, and then hurled into an obsessional void?”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. Kaplan, Ilana (March 17, 2017). "Philip Glass' 80th Birthday at Tibet House Benefit Concert Was a Message to the American People". Billboard . Retrieved April 1, 2019. Benitez-Eves, Tina (November 14, 2022). "Bryan Adams, Patti Smith, R.E.M., Ann Wilson, Doobie Brothers Among 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame Nominees". American Songwriter . Retrieved November 16, 2022. Pareles, Jon (October 16, 2006). "Fans of a Groundbreaking Club Mourn and Then Move On". The New York Times . 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.

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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 2015, Smith appeared with Nader, spoke and performed the songs "Wing" and "People Have the Power" during the American Museum of Tort Law convocation ceremony in Winsted, Connecticut. [111] In 2016, Smith spoke, read poetry, and performed several songs along with her daughter Jesse at Nader's Breaking Through Power conference at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. [112] Rose, Caryn (December 2, 2022). "Patti Smith's Worldview Finds a New Format in the Beautiful A Book of Days". Vulture . Retrieved March 1, 2023. We write because we respond because we dare because we dream: “What is the dream? To write something fine, that would be better than I am, and that would justify my trials and indiscretions. To offer proof, through a scramble of words, that God exists” (93). The writer steers the wheel when she can: “Fate has a hand but is not the hand. I was looking for something and found something else, the trailer of a film. Moved by a sonorous though alien voice, words poured” (27). And we must imagine that she is happy. Isn’t this what Camus taught us?On April 27, 2004, Smith released Trampin', which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who died two years earlier. It was her first album on Columbia Records, which later became a sister label to her Arista Records, her previous label. Smith curated the Meltdown festival in London on June 25, 2005, in which she performed Horses live in its entirety for the first time. [39] This live performance was released later in 2004 as Horses/Horses. Hattenstone, Simon (May 25, 2013). "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". The Guardian . Retrieved March 23, 2020.

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I Will Always Live Like Peter Pan. 70 min interview from the Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video by Louisiana Channel. In the short fiction of Devotion, she sometimes inserts a cliché. Smith knows when she’s inserting clichés and favors them because of her profound love of detective stories. In detective stories, you can always find clichés because the truth is that often times it’s enough to say “the man sat down in the chair”. We don’t always need to know what kind of man nor do we need to know what kind of chair, or how he sat. At other times, the telling detail is a more psychological one that paints no proper image at all: “He was a solitary man, in his late thirties, of unusual control, hardy and virile, yet uniquely sensitive, having already negotiated the spectrum of academics, risk, art, and excess” (45). This is likewise an apt description of Smith, though she is twice as old as her character. Also in 2012, Smith recorded a cover of Io come persona by Italian singer-songwriter Giorgio Gaber. [63] [64]Theater Review: The Proudly Woke “Some Like It Hot” Musical Is a Genuine Blast Some Like It Hot is a terrifically entertaining – and t... posted on January 3, 2023 More than two decades ago, Patti Smith and a group of other artists were sitting with the Dalai Lama when the late Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys asked the Tibetan spiritual leader a question: what’s the number-one thing that young people can do to make a better world? Without missing a beat, the Dalai Lama replied: “Look after the environment.” Patti Smith Comforts New York, Plays First-Ever Show at Capitol Theatre". American Songwriter. March 4, 2022 . Retrieved March 7, 2022. Theater Review – “Here Lies Love” Lies Flat on Broadway The David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical makes its long-awai... posted on August 7, 2023 Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. ”—Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic

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