Smith Patti

Femton år efter Patti Smiths hyllade <em>Just Kids</em> ger Brombergs i november ut fortsättningen. Personligt skrivet om ett liv inspirerat och format av kärlek, förlust, uppoffring och konst.<br/><br/><em>Änglarnas bröd </em>är det mest personliga som Patti Smith har skrivit. Hon tar oss genom sin barndom efter andra världskriget: lungsjuka barn, grannar som kämpar för överlevnad i ett utdömt bostadsområde. Där, i barnets värld fylld av drömmar och fantasier, står Patti som kapten för sin lojala och älskade syskonarmé. Hon besegrar mobbare, samtalar med sköldpaddornas konung och söker efter heliga silvermynt.<br/><br/>Under tonårstiden får musiken och poesin allt större plats i hennes liv och Arthur Rimbaud och Bob Dylan blir viktiga förebilder. Hon skriver poesi, sedan låttexter, vilket leder till ikoniska inspelningar som Horses, Dancing Barefoot och Because the Night. Men en dag lämnar hon allt bakom sig för att gifta sig med sin stora kärlek, Fred "Sonic" Smith. Tillsammans skapar de ett liv vid en kanal i St. Clair Shores, Michigan, med gamla pilträd och fruktträd. Hon bygger ett eget rum, inrett med en kudde av marockanskt silke, en persisk kopp, bläckhorn och penna. Paret tillbringar nätterna med att studera nautiska kartor och att planera nya äventyr samtidigt som de bildar en familj.<br/><br/>När Patti Smith genomgår svåra tider vävs sorg och tacksamhet samman genom att ta hand om sina barn, att återuppbygga sitt liv och, slutligen, att börja skriva igen. Där finns möjligheten att omvandla det vardagliga till det vackra, det vanliga till det magiska, att göra smärta till hopp - och att leva för att skriva och att skriva för att leva.<br/><br/>"Självklart kommer Just kids att bli en klassiker." Dagens Nyheter<br/><br/>"Patti Smith är en lysande författare, som vet hur man gör konst av sitt liv. Hon skriver med oavbrutet starkt vibrerande närvaro." Aftonbladet

<b>A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner <i>Just Kids.</i></b><br/><i><br/>God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper</i>, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.<br/><br/>The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, <i>Bread of Angels</i> takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as <i>Horses</i> and<i> Easter</i>, 'Dancing Barefoot' and 'Because the Night'.<br/><br/>She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.<br/><br/>As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again - the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year&apos;s concerts at San Francisco&apos;s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger&apos;s words, &quot;Anything is possible: after all, it&apos;s the Year of the Monkey.&quot; For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life&apos;s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith&apos;s signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.