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M train

Title
M train / Patti Smith.
Author
Smith, Patti
Publication
  • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
  • ©2015
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Description
253 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe 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. We then travel across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this memoir, augmented by black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biography.
Access (note)
  • Berg Collection is restricted access;
Contents
Café 'Ino -- Changing channels -- Animal crackers -- The flea draws blood -- Hill of beans -- Clock with no hands -- The well -- Wheel of fortune -- How I lost the wind-up bird -- Her name was Sandy -- Vecchia Zimarra -- Mu -- Tempest air demons -- A dream of Alfred Wegener -- Road to Larache -- Covered ground -- How Linden kills the thing she loves -- Valley of the lost -- The hour of noon.
Call Number
JND 15-92
ISBN
  • 9781101875100
  • 1101875100
  • 9780345815453
  • 0345815459
  • 9781101875117 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1101875119 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015012904
OCLC
900179805
Author
Smith, Patti, author.
Title
M train / Patti Smith.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Access
Berg Collection is restricted access; request permission in holding division. (copy in Berg Coll Smith, P M87 2015)
Local Note
Copy in JND 15-92: Eleventh printing, April 2019; lacks edition statement.
Author's presentation copy to the Berg Collection. (copy in Berg Coll Smith, P M87 2015)
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Topical Term
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & MusiciansM̂USIC / Genres & Styles / Rock.
Added Author
Smith, Patti. Inscriber
Smith, Patti. Signer
Other Form:
Smith, Patti. M train. (CaOONL)20159038235
Research Call Number
JND 15-92
JFD 15-4424
Berg Coll Smith, P M87 2015
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