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There is a nearly hour long interview with Patti Smith conducted by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now tv today--i'd highly recommend it
Patti Smith has a new book out which focuses on her lifelong friendship with Robert mapplethorpe: in the interview she speaks esp. re their early years in NYC, living in the Chelsea Hotel, his foto of her for her first LP etc
she also speaks of her activism and songs for the Palestinian people and at greater length re a teen-aged boy, a German Muslim Turk, imprisoned five years in Guantanamo for "reasons" based on a string of accidental circumstances-
a book which had a huge effect on me as a teenager (and ever since)had a similar effect on Patti Smith when she discovered it by chance, also as a teenager--
Angel Fores' Anthology of French Poetry: from Nerval to Valery--when the book was republished twenty five or so years later, Patti Smith wrote a very inspiring introduction re her discovery of the book and its effects on her life, writing, music-
it's an Anthology i can't highly enough recommend
as people familiar with her work know, her second album, Radio Free Ethiopia, is basically dedicated to and heavily influenced by Arthur Rimbaud, his life and works
i think of Patti Smith as a figure on the line of what the Japanese call a National Treasure--through her poetry, music, activism and contributions to the Punk ethos and performance, she has had a huge impact worldwide and is an examplar of the kind of artist most needed in times like these, in which so many American poets and artists have turned their back on involvement with anything controversial, which is to say, the basic issue of human rights for all persons and a sense of Shelley's call for poets acting and creating as indeed the unacknowledged legislators of the world-
thank you to Patti Smith and Amy Goodman for the inspiring and often hilarious interview--do tune in-
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There is a nearly hour long interview with Patti Smith conducted by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now tv today--i'd highly recommend it
Patti Smith has a new book out which focuses on her lifelong friendship with Robert mapplethorpe: in the interview she speaks esp. re their early years in NYC, living in the Chelsea Hotel, his foto of her for her first LP etc
she also speaks of her activism and songs for the Palestinian people and at greater length re a teen-aged boy, a German Muslim Turk, imprisoned five years in Guantanamo for "reasons" based on a string of accidental circumstances-
a book which had a huge effect on me as a teenager (and ever since)had a similar effect on Patti Smith when she discovered it by chance, also as a teenager--
Angel Fores' Anthology of French Poetry: from Nerval to Valery--when the book was republished twenty five or so years later, Patti Smith wrote a very inspiring introduction re her discovery of the book and its effects on her life, writing, music-
it's an Anthology i can't highly enough recommend
as people familiar with her work know, her second album, Radio Free Ethiopia, is basically dedicated to and heavily influenced by Arthur Rimbaud, his life and works
i think of Patti Smith as a figure on the line of what the Japanese call a National Treasure--through her poetry, music, activism and contributions to the Punk ethos and performance, she has had a huge impact worldwide and is an examplar of the kind of artist most needed in times like these, in which so many American poets and artists have turned their back on involvement with anything controversial, which is to say, the basic issue of human rights for all persons and a sense of Shelley's call for poets acting and creating as indeed the unacknowledged legislators of the world-
thank you to Patti Smith and Amy Goodman for the inspiring and often hilarious interview--do tune in-
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