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Selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene.

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"[Early Work] burns . . . with the galvanizing sense of faith and transcendence that made [Smith] the last of the great rock poets." -- Entertainment Weekly
"[Early Work] establishes Smith as a visionary belletrist who believed in rock as a spiritual outlet and haven for black sheep—an outpost on a continuum connecting such heroes as poets Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire, Amelia Earhart, Harry Houdini and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini to a sexy, androgynous future." -- Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone
"A poet of distinction." -- John Rockwell, New York Times

Early Work

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    A Paperback / softback by Patti Smith

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 12 July 1995
      ISBN-13 9780393313017
      978-0393313017
      ISBN-10 0393313018
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene.

      Trade Review
      "[Early Work] burns . . . with the galvanizing sense of faith and transcendence that made [Smith] the last of the great rock poets." -- Entertainment Weekly
      "[Early Work] establishes Smith as a visionary belletrist who believed in rock as a spiritual outlet and haven for black sheep—an outpost on a continuum connecting such heroes as poets Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire, Amelia Earhart, Harry Houdini and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini to a sexy, androgynous future." -- Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone
      "A poet of distinction." -- John Rockwell, New York Times

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