Devotion
By: Patti Smith
Series: Why I write
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780300218626
Subjects: Authorship; Philosophy; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "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.
Notes: "The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page.