"In Devotion, [Smith] starkly shares and uncovers, through a spare, haunting prose, the reasons she is compelled to write; so evocative is Smith’s writing that we’re compelled to read it as her voices transfixes us with its bell-like clarity and ringing passion."—Henry . Patti Smith latest publication, Devotion, is a deceptively simple volume containing a short story bookended by accounts of her travels and experiences surrounding the writing of the short story. The short story itself is fine and demonstrates just how far Smith's command of this kind of prose writing has developed since her first tentative attempts at it in her volume Babel/5(). · Devotion by Patti Smith. Yale University Press, pages, $ By Matt Hanson. Ever since she blazed onto the scene with her galvanizing debut Horses, and kept up the pace with the incantatory Easter, Patti Smith has made a brilliant career out of mixing avant-garde poetics with primal rock n roll. In concerts she would finish her fiery cover of The Who’s “My Generation” by Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
― Patti Smith, Devotion. 8 likes. Like "Tearing things apart (is) a powerful aspect of human nature." ― Patti Smith, Devotion. tags: deconstruction, destruction, human-nature. 7 likes. Like "www.doorway.ru I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art. Patti Smith, Devotion, www.doorway.ru://www.doorway.ru "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading It's a privilege to spend any time with Patti Smith, however brief."-Suzi Feay, Financial Times "A triptych of compact, heartfelt essays on discovery, solitude and writing."-Darragh McManus, Irish Independent "By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion.
Patti Smith opens Devotion with a riff on inspiration, which she invokes as "the unforeseen quantity, the muse that assails at the hidden hour." Yes, the unforeseen quantity although we might refer to it as the unforeseen quality as well. Pressing me to close Songs of Innocence in order to experience, as blake, a glimpse of the divine that may also become a poem. That is the decisive power of a singular work:a call to action. And I, time and again, am overcome with the hubris to believe I can answer that call.”. ― Patti Smith, Devotion. Author Patti Smith (Steven Sebring) “Devotion,” we are solemnly told, is part of the “Why I Write” series, based on the Windham-Campbell lectures delivered annually at Yale University.
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