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A Book of Days by Patti Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
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)
$21.95 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
$69.99 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
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
$16.95 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | 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
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 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 ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between ...Show more
Robert Mapplethorpe by Mark Holborn (Editor); Dimitri Levas (Editor); Patti Smith (Contribution by); Andrew Sullivan (Introduction by)
$250.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photographyRobert Mapplethorpe was one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists, known for his groundbreaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Wim Wenders: Instant Stories by Patti Smith; Sam Shephard; Wim Wenders
$75.00 AUD
Category: Film
As well as being an acclaimed filmmaker and a member of the New German Cinema movement, Wim Wenders (b. 1945) has also made an international name for himself as a photographer, with shows all over the world. While previous exhibitions have focused on his large-format colour photography, he now opens a t ...Show more
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more