TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Patti
TI  - Devotion
SN  - 9780300218626
AV  - PS 3569 S642d 2017
U1  - 801 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Smith, Patti
KW  - Smith, Patti.
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Poetry
N1  - "The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page; How the mind works --; Devotion --; A dream is not a dream
N2  - "In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017
ER  -