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Lädt ... M Train by Patti Smith (2015-10-06)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I listened to the Audible version of M Train while taking long walks in my neighborhood. Patti Smith narrated her book herself, dropping "g's" and speaking in the monotone of poetry readers. This presentation lulled me into an almost trance-like state while listening to her stream of consciousness telling of scenes from her adult life. If you have ever yearned to step into the mind of a brilliant artist (poet, musician, photographer, performance artist), this book can serve as a portal. M Train is nothing like her previous book, Just Kids. I think I liked this one more. She is a spokeswoman for Punk Rock, and her days consist of coffee shops, notebooks filled with her writings, a lingering feeling of loss after the death of her husband, and hours spent watching police procedurals on TV (The Killing being one of her favorites). M Train adds new writers to my ever growing list of Books To Read (Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Paul Bowles). My admiration for her continues to grow. ( ) I wasn't sure how to write a review of "M Train". Much different than "Just Kids". It starts with Patti's dream of a cowpoke saying that "it isn't easy writing about nothing", then is filled with her writing about many things. Filled with stories of her travels, her connections to places and meeting people (loved her meeting with Bobby Fisher!), purchasing a beach house, drinking coffee (my favorite drink too, and I like it black also!), her joys and sad times, sitting in her favorite café, her dreaming, her books (I got many suggestions for books to read, "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" is next on my list), TV detective shows (who would've known?!), and just her thoughts. I was sad when I realized that I had finished the book. I enjoyed it so much, and wanted it to go on. As I've said before, Patti is remarkable. I subscribe to her e mailings (always with audio!), and suggest that you do also. And I will read more of her books. Think I'll put "Horses" on my player right now...
M Train might be taken as a most roundabout and leisurely way of answering the question “How have you been?” The answer comes in the form of fragments of waking fantasy, literary commentaries, extended reminiscences, evocations of lost objects, travel notations, tallies of places and names and flavors (“Lists. Small anchors in the swirl of transmitted waves, reverie, and saxophone solos”). By turns it is daybook, dreambook, commonplace book. Under all lies a grief that is never allowed to overwhelm the writing but is, it would seem, its groundwater. She allows herself to begin anywhere and break off anywhere, thus realizing the secret yearning of almost anyone who sits down to write a book: that it might be possible for the thing simply to create itself out of necessity, to emerge as if by a natural process of unfolding. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? From the National Book Award??winning author of Just Kids: a ??sublime collection of true stories ? and wild imaginings that take us to the very heart of who Patti Smith is? (Vanity Fair), told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. Patti Smith calls this bestselling work ??a roadmap to my life.? M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo??s Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York??s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer??s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith??s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today. Featuring a postscript with Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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