Devotion
Smith, Patti2017
Book
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.
Main title:
Devotion / Patti Smith.
Author:
Smith, Patti, author
Work:
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]©2017
Collation:
93 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
"The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page.
ISBN:
9780300218626 (hardback)
Dewey class:
818.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
467436
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| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Literature | LITER 818.6 SMIT | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 818.6 SMIT | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | -Literature | LITER 818.6 SMIT | Available |