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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393313018
ISBN-139780393313017
eBay Product ID (ePID)170099
Product Key Features
Book TitleEarly Work : 1970-1979
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenrePoetry
AuthorPatti Smith
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight6.4 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Reviews[Early Work] establishes Smith as a visionary belletrist who believed in rock as a spiritual outlet and haven for black sheep--an outpost on a continuum connecting such heroes as poets Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire, Amelia Earhart, Harry Houdini and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini to a sexy, androgynous future., [Early Work] burns . . . with the galvanizing sense of faith and transcendence that made [Smith] the last of the great rock poets.
Dewey Decimal811/.54
SynopsisCollected here are selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene. Smith's work evokes the experimentation and the desire to break boundaries of those pre-punk days. Over one-quarter of the works selected are unpublished pieces from journals, performances, and Smith's personal papers. Heavily illustrated with photographs by Judy Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Maxey, and others, Early Work brings together all sides of Patti Smith, from the thoughtful intellectual to the explosive performer., A collection of Smith's early poems and prose, which is both meditative and explosive, and evokes the desire to break boundaries in the pre-punk era., Selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene.