Devotion / Patti Smith.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300218626
- ISBN: 0300218621
- Physical Description: 93 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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General Note: | "The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page. |
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Subject: | Smith, Patti > Authorship. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Authorship > Philosophy. |
Genre: | Essays. Poetry. |
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- 6 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Marion Library | 153.35 SMI (Text) | 37810435735559 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |