Devotion / Patti Smith.

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Smith, Patti [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Why I writePublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]Copyright date: Ã2017Description: 93 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780300218626
0300218621
0300230680
9780300230680

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PS 3569 S642d 2017

Contents:

How the mind works -- Devotion -- A dream is not a dream.

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PS 3569 S642d 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	3	Available		00000120708

"The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page.

"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.

How the mind works -- Devotion -- A dream is not a dream.

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