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A Book of Days by Patti Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for ...Show more
A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud; Louise Varese (Translator); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat -- a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths."Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to fr ...Show more
All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release by Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, Scott Freiman, Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Musical historians Phillippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon delve deep into the history and musical origins of every Beatles album, recounting the circumstances that led to the composition of each song, the recording process and the instruments used. This intimate and revealing look at the music of Th ...Show more
Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This new collection of verse from one of "rock's original poets" (New York Times) effectively transmits the effect and aura, as well as the innocence, that make Smith a rock star.
Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Richard Winston (Translator); Clara Winston (Translator); Patti Smith (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he me ...Show more
Complete 1975-2006 by Patti Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
An updated edition of the complete lyrics to Patti Smith's extraordinary catalogue.
Devotion by Patti Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Why I Write Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audi ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
$16.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? ...Show more
EARLY WORK by SMITH PATTI
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Patti Smith - performer, poet, songwriter, playwright, painter - changed the face of rock n roll with her beat-derived poetry. For the first time Patti Smith's early lyrics, poems and prose have been collected together in Early Work 1970-1979.
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$23.95 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward p ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: From
Just Kids is the story of two innocents who shed sheltered lives and braved the city in search of art and freedom. In each other Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith found kindred spirits and pursued their mutual dreams, from Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel into the world. Each would eventually reach the p ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Smith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy, "Just Kids" is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling.