5/11/2023 0 Comments My train patti smith![]() ![]() ![]() Like her famous black-and-white Polaroid photos (some of which are scattered throughout the book), the chapters of “M Train” are magic lantern slides, jumping, free-associatively, between the present and the past, and from subject to subject. Smith, 68, is remarkably attuned to the sound and sorcery of words, and her prose here is both lyrical and radiantly pictorial. Her book is about moving from a time when her children were little and “the things I touched were living” (“my husband’s fingers, a dandelion, a skinned knee”) to a time when she increasingly began to capture and memorialize moments from her life in photos and words - to create, as an artist, talismanic souvenirs of the past. Losing her early New York friend and roommate, Robert Mapplethorpe, to AIDS in 1989. ![]() Losing her brother, Todd, a month later to a stroke. Losing her husband, the guitarist Fred (Sonic) Smith, to heart failure in 1994 at the age of 45. ![]() Patti Smith’s achingly beautiful new book, “M Train,” is a kaleidoscopic ballad about the losses dealt out by time and chance and circumstance. ![]()
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