PATTI SMITH
Nacida en el seno de una familia de clase trabajadora poco después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su infancia dickensiana transcurre entre desahucios y enfermedades, alternados con juegos y libros de cuentos que le abrirán las puertas de un mundo lleno de magia y sueños de libertad. Pronto descubre en Arthur Rimbaud y Bob Dylan los modelos para sus propios poemas y canciones, y en Nueva York, un nuevo territorio artístico donde formar una banda y componer discos tan legendarios como Horses y Because the Night. Amor y familia, pérdida y reconstrucción y, siempre, la escritura serán las constantes de una trayectoria vital impulsada por la libertad artística y el poder de la imaginación para transformar lo cotidiano en sagrado, lo común en mágico y el dolor en esperanza.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The radiant definitive memoirs of one of the greatest icons of our time, winner of the National Book Award: a song to creation, love, and hope.
"Not only is she a great artist, she is a magician, that is, someone in touch with other levels of reality." --William S. Burroughs
"Patti Smith is an intergenerational goddess." --Montserrat Domínguez
"God whispers through a wrinkle in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in these extraordinary memoirs in which, from her first memory to her current concerns, she weaves an unforgettable tale of a life devoted to beauty, music, poetry, and love.
Born into a working-class family shortly after World War II, her Dickensian childhood was spent between evictions and illnesses, interspersed with games and storybooks that opened the doors to a world full of magic and dreams of freedom. She soon discovered in Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan the models for her own poems and songs, and in New York, a new artistic territory where she formed a band and composed legendary albums such as Horses and Because the Night. Love and family, loss and reconstruction, and always writing will be the constants of a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of imagination to transform the everyday into the sacred, the common into the magical, and pain into hope.
