{"product_id":"patti-smith-collected-lyrics-19702015-9781408863008","title":"Patti Smith Collected Lyrics 19702015","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eA revised and updated version of the artist's collected lyrics\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAn American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer. Her work is rooted in poetry, which infused her 1975 landmark album, \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e. A declaration of existence, \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e was described as three chords merged with the power of the word'; it was graced with the now iconic portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, the subject of her award-winning memoir \u003ci\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e. Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith's \u003ci\u003eComplete Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Smith's groundbreaking album, \u003ci\u003eCollected Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs, including her first, ''Work Song'', written for Janis Joplin in 1970, and her most current, ''Writer's Song'', to be recorded in 2015. The collection is liberally illustrated with original manuscripts of lyrics from Smith's extens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture Joan Didion Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached Johnny Depp A tender, harrowing, often hilarious portrait of young lovers forging their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists Vogue The most beautiful, incredible autobiography - it will make you ache for a time and a place that you probably never knew, New York in the 1970s Nick Hornby She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion Edmund White","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408013861207,"sku":"9781408863008","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408863008.jpg?v=1730501272","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/patti-smith-collected-lyrics-19702015-9781408863008","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}