Smith, Patti,  1946- <br/><br/>
Devotion / 
Patti Smith. 
 - 93 p.  :  ill. ;  19 cm. 
 - Why I write .
<br/><br/> "The 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture"--Title page. 
<br/><br/> How the mind works --  Devotion --  A dream is not a dream. 
<br/><br/> "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"--Booklist, 08/01/2017. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300218626 0300218621 0300230680 9780300230680 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Smith, Patti--Authorship.<br/>Smith, Patti.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)<br/>Authorship--Philosophy.<br/>Authorship.<br/>Authorship--Philosophy.<br/>Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Essays.<br/>Poetry.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 3569  / S642d 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>801