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 seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.

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? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.

Patti Smith, a National Book Award-winning author, first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.
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series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.

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 tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs–including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger’s words, “Anything is possible: after all, it’s the Year of the Monkey.” For Smith–inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing–the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life’s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.
Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world.
Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

A relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud’s <i>A Season In Hell &amp; The Drunken Boat</i> — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths.”<p>Rimbaud originally distributed <i>A Season In Hell</i> to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether. New Directions’s edition was among the first to be published in the U.S., and it quickly became a classic. Rimbaud’s famous poem “The Drunken Boat” was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as “the first punk” — a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and his fiery poetry.</p><p>This new edition proudly dons the original Alvin Lustig–designed cover, and a introduction by another famous rebel — and now National Book Award–winner — Patti Smith.</p>

從我的青春時代起，她就是那顆最燦爛的星，她就是女性創作者不馴形象的化身。
──《時間裡的癡人》作者 珍妮佛．伊根
「我聽到笑聲、鈴鐺聲、赤足跑過寺廟階梯的聲音。
一縷縷陽光、甜蜜的滋味，那樣近，卻是一去不返的時光。」──佩蒂‧史密斯
在黑暗中懷抱傷痛前行的一段旅程
《只是孩子》美國國家書卷獎得主 佩蒂．史密斯 最新文集
★2020年新增結語〈終話的終話〉──搶先美國首發
★41幀作者親手拍攝照片──完整收錄
他說，到頭來，世事只是故事的飼料，你我也不例外。
她說，但是我依然揣想美好之事會發生。或許明天吧。明天以及之後的連串明天。
那一年，唐納‧川普當選美國總統，歐洲各國遭受連環恐攻，
佩蒂‧史密斯與人生摯友訣別，帶著心傷踽踽獨行，
從紐約、舊金山、亞歷桑納沙漠，到回憶裡的艾爾斯岩、博拉紐生前居所，
她將這一年的漂泊與奇想，書寫成18篇深邃絕美的篇章。
◎所有世間的無常，她都能寫出美──一本在孤獨中生成的不凡之書
2010年，佩蒂‧史密斯以《只是孩子》書寫與已故攝影師羅柏在紐約相識相戀並投身創作的故事。接著，她在《時光列車》回到公寓對街的咖啡館，回憶亡夫、青春與所愛。而後，2015年邁入2016年的跨年夜，佩蒂．史密斯在舊金山演唱會前一晚接到摯友山帝的病危通知，茫然傷痛之際，她開始了一年的流浪，就從與山帝相約同行的聖塔克魯茲開始。
在這本浸潤至靈魂深處的書中，佩蒂．史密斯以不受時間與邏輯束縛的詩文字，引領我們前往她奔放不羈卻又處處留下跡象的漫遊奇境。她離家前往西部大陸，眺望融合現實與夢境的光景：從加州跋涉至亞歷桑那沙漠、到肯塔基鄉間陪伴臥病的好友山姆、到舊金山灣區探視病危的山帝。她以精純的詩意將事實與虛構融為一體，逐一探訪每個充塞回憶與想像的場景。對佩蒂．史密斯而言，這一年的持續追尋、思考與書寫，是她對生命轉折的估量：談失去、談衰老、也談無盡的寫作欲望。儘管意外、悲痛接踵而來，她仍以書寫交託讀者無數慰藉：她的智慧、逸趣、灼見，以及最重要的，對更美、更好世界的堅定盼望。
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◎淒美、華麗，一段穿越佩蒂．史密斯夢境與生活的漂流航程，交織虛構與現實，幻化角色與真實人物。她寫自己注視烤麵包機上反照出自己的臉：「我看起來既年輕又老邁。」完美地描述了她的精神。 ──Maureen Dowd，《紐約時報》
◎優雅、詩意、怡情、動人，一部美麗而獨特的著作，記錄著世間最才華洋溢的創意之聲一生中最劇變的一年。一部分是行旅紀實，一部分是對時代的反思，一部分則是對十年生活的沉思。佩蒂．史密斯毫不費力地結合小說與非小說，帶領讀者走上兩種獨特的旅程：一種是可以在地圖上追蹤的旅程，另一種則是在她內心進行著的豐富而複雜的心靈之旅。她的音樂成就經常淡化她在其他領域的表現，但本書每一頁都充滿傑出的文字，不斷地提醒讀者，佩蒂．史密斯是一位曾在2010年獲得美國國家書卷獎的出色作家暨詩人。在她才華洋溢的筆觸下，對紐約冬日的輕輕一瞥，就能閃現出美麗的詩歌。史密斯的非小說創作手法獨特且充滿勇氣：但凡存在過、由她遐想與感覺過的，都是真實。這是一本關於佩蒂．史密斯與整個世界的書，這是每個人都應該閱讀這本書的原因之一。 ──Gabino Iglesias，美國全國公共廣播電台
◎令人動容──一本刻劃身體與心靈漂泊的旅程……對於即將到來的七十歲生日，佩蒂．史密斯無怨也不逃避。她隨處俯拾皆是藝術，保有開拓的心靈。這位打破常規的詩人、美國國家書卷獎得主，正如她在《如夢的一年》中的自述一般：「繼續幹活，盡其可能，活著。」 ──Jack Cline，《華盛頓郵報》
◎佩蒂．史密斯在2016年元旦開始書寫《如夢的一年》，記述帶來衰老、朋友逝去及整體幻滅的劇變之年。她對美國西部的描述與自我獨白並行，事實與虛構的界線益發模糊，隨處湧現對細節的執著，使得事實及虛構的融合更趨超現實。佩蒂．史密斯以獨有的詩意，講述在動盪時期尋找意義的旅程，一個動人的故事。 ──Christian Allaire，《Vogue》雜誌
◎美國最好的回憶錄之一。《如夢的一年》有趣而古怪，明澈又悲傷，同時也是佩蒂．史密斯穿越加州、亞利桑那州和肯塔基州的旅行紀錄。這是如夢般的記事，充滿想像的對話，以及對佩蒂．史密斯與兩位在她寫作過程中逝去的摯友，劇作家山姆及音樂製作人山帝的冥思。這本書是她結合寫作的成熟穿透性，以及音樂即興狂野的自由形式，最好的成果。 ──Andrew Barker，《浮華世界》雜誌
◎佩蒂．史密斯以詩意的散文與拍立得相機拍出來的快照，捕捉了真實與美麗、挑戰與勝利。《如夢的一年》書寫她在加州聖塔克魯茲海岸及美國西部漂泊的一年，尋找未知的問題解答。佩蒂．史密斯的印象派著作交織事實與虛構，捕捉到不滅的真實時刻。 ──Drew Tewksbury，《洛杉磯時報》
◎魔幻、華麗──充滿佩蒂．史密斯散文一貫的獨特藝術氣息。 ──Fiona Sturges，《衛報》
◎不同凡響。 ──Bryan Appleyard， 《泰晤士報》
◎一本環繞著佩蒂．史密斯的生活與美國政局轉變的回憶錄。佩蒂．史密斯的作品令人神迷且幽默，模糊了小說與非小說的界限，她的作品不會讓你失望。 ──錢佳楠，《 The Millions》線上文學雜誌

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 twenties on New York’s MacDougal Street, the street of cafés.
Woolgathering was completed, in Michigan, on Patti Smith’s 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye’s Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, New Directions is proud to present it in an augmented edition, featuring writing that was omitted from the book’s first printing, along with new photographs and illustrations.

"So many categories " Andy Warhol would complain during his rigorous, nearly obsessive daily shopping regimen of antique stores, galleries, auction houses, and flea markets. Though best known as a proponent of the avant-garde, Warhol was also passionately engaged with the historical past, an interest which found a direct yet imaginative expression in the serious collecting he undertook from the mid-50s until his death. Possession Obsession proposes that collecting was another form of artistic practice for Warhol, one that provides as much insight into his interests, tastes, and ideas as do his other myriad art forms. Accompanying essays examine the how, why, and what of Warhol's collection, the crucial role it played in his life, the aesthetic quality and historical associations of the objects themselves, the psychological and sexual aspects of collecting, other artists' use of collecting, and the relationship between collecting and mass culture. Also included are never-before-published photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe of Warhol's home.

★摇滚桂冠诗人帕蒂·史密斯步入人生七十的岁月见证， 我们时代最具天赋与创造力的声音！
作为美国最传奇的艺术家之一，帕蒂·史密斯意味着一整个时代的摇滚美学，唱出了当代流行文化中至为重要的声音。同时，文学与写作亦是她生命的关键词，曾以回忆录写作荣获美国国家图书奖。
在步入人生七十之际，面临着亲友的离世与世界的动荡，帕蒂·史密斯再次以创作回应现实，写下这本既具“即时性”又有历史纵深的回忆录，成为艺术家写作的新标杆。
★在衰老中直视生命的脆弱与美好，与《只是孩子》形成对照阅读的完美镜像
如果说《只是孩子》是一曲七十年代的青春挽歌，《梦旅店》就是二十一世纪动荡之年的诗意见证，以年老的睿智和不死的摇滚之心，她重访历史，思考岁月，也回应了历史与眼下的具体现实。
★朋克在老去，世界在下沉，在动荡之年她继续上路，于丧失中寻索永恒的生命之火
摇滚从来不只属于年轻人，朋克也不只是一种青春期愤怒，在这本回忆录里，我们第一次看到了老去的朋克如何面对岁月的流逝，生命的伤痛，却依然保持着天真与热望；依然以孩子之眼记录生活，以摇滚客的姿态对抗世界，以一颗诗人之心重燃爱与梦。
★“老年爱丽丝”的奇境漫游，梦与生活的流浪之歌，公路旅行文学中最温柔有力的声音
“梦”与“旅行”是本书的关键词。
在经典的美国公路旅行中，帕蒂漂流于梦境与现实、童话意象与历史遗迹之间，以一整年的旅行为线索，串联起文学、艺术、历史、现实的种种闪光。在整体幻灭的一年，以一颗旅者之心随处俯拾希望。
★记忆映照现实的诗意闪回，打破虚构与非虚构之墙的独特文体；
同时收录帕蒂·史密斯亲自拍摄的珍贵影像，增订2020版全新后记
在本书中，帕蒂·史密斯再一次展现出文学创作的超强天赋。她自如出入于幻想与记忆，往来穿梭于虚构与现实，将现实见闻与自我独白融为一体，双线并行，寻找个体与世界之间的全新联结。
同时，帕蒂·史密斯一路拍下四十六张宝丽来照片，图文互为注脚，编织出一场诗人的清醒梦。
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【媒体推荐】
轻巧却有魔力……《梦旅店》提醒我们，绝望与可能往往来源于同一处。
——《洛杉矶时报》
一场清醒的梦境……帕蒂·史密斯在任何地方都能看到神秘的连结，她漂流于她的文字之上——读者，也随之一起。
——《纽约客》杂志
凄美、华丽，一段穿越帕蒂·史密斯梦境与生活的漂流航程，交织虚构与现实，幻化角色与真实人物。她写自己注视吐司机上反射出自己的脸：“我看上去既年轻又衰老。”这恰当地描述了她的精神。
——《纽约时报》
动人、独一无二的回忆录，我们这一代极具天赋与创造力的声音记录着变革的一年。……她的音乐成就经常淡化她在其他领域的表现，但这本书的每一页都充满杰出的文字，不断提醒读者，帕蒂·史密斯是一位曾在2010年获得美国国家图书奖的出色作家暨诗人。在她才华洋溢的笔触下，对纽约冬日的轻轻一瞥，就能闪现出美丽的诗歌。……
——美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）
在美国的文学经典中，充满了公路旅行式的回忆录，如果说在这一经典中我们还要加上些什么，那必然是帕蒂·史密斯的声音。
——《镇与城》杂志
……这位朋克诗人的回忆录如她在纽约公寓中将过往的照片一张一张展开，每一张都是人生之旅上的护身符。
——《娱乐周刊》杂志
这本书中有绝对真实的真理，被诗意点缀……令人惊叹，又抚慰人心。
——《PopMatters》杂志
帕蒂·史密斯在2016年元旦开始书写《梦旅店》，记述带来衰老、朋友逝去及整体幻灭的剧变之年。她对美国西部的描述与自我独白并行，事实与虚构的界限益发模糊，随处涌现对细节的执着，使得事实及虚构的融合更趋超现实。帕蒂·史密斯以独有的诗意，讲述在动荡时期寻找意义的旅程。一个动人的故事。
——《VOGUE》杂志
美国最好的回忆录之一。《梦旅店》有趣而古怪，明澈又悲伤，同时也是帕蒂·史密斯穿越加州、亚利桑那州和肯塔基州的旅行纪录。这是一部如梦般的记事，充满想象的对话，以及对帕蒂与两位在她写作过程中逝去的挚友，剧作家山姆及音乐制作人桑迪的冥思。这本书是帕蒂写作的成熟穿透力与音乐上即兴狂野的自由形式结合之下，最好的成果。
——《浮华世界》杂志
从我的青春时代起，她就是那颗璀璨的星，是女性创作者不驯形象的化身。
——珍妮弗·伊根
魔幻、华丽──充满帕蒂·史密斯散文一贯的独特艺术气息。
——《卫报》
令人动容──一本刻画身体与心灵漂泊的旅程……对于即将到来的七十岁生日，帕蒂·史密斯无怨也不逃避。她在所有地方发现艺术，保有开拓的心灵。这位打破常规的诗人、美国国家图书奖得主，正如她在书中的自述一般：“依旧忙自己的工作，这是我活着所能做出的最大努力。”
——《华盛顿邮报》
【内容简介】
“我知道的是，山姆死了，我哥哥死了，我母亲死了，我父亲死了，我丈夫死了，我的猫死了，我的狗死于 1957 年，现在也没有活过来。然而我依旧想着某些美好的事将要发生。或许就在明天。”
费尔莫剧场的新年演唱会后，帕蒂·史密斯独自漫步在圣克鲁斯的海岸，即将开始一整年的漂泊。
她的脚下是加利福尼亚州小旅店和亚利桑那的沙漠，挚友所在重症病房和肯塔基州的农场，而头顶，一块旅店招牌邀请帕蒂玩一场游戏，记忆中的艾尔斯岩和波拉尼奥旧居时刻牵引着帕蒂，通往中世纪佛兰德的道路在梦境中被打开……面对动荡的时局和亲友离世，帕蒂在步入人生第七十年之际写下这部现实、想象与记忆交织的回忆录。
生活周而复始，却在变化中向前。意外、悲伤与幻灭面前，帕蒂以她不变的探索之心“向新的疆域进发”，动人的文字和锐利目光时刻展现她对更美好的世界的热望。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Variety, Pitchfork, PopSugar

In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she’s reading, the graves of beloved heroes—William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith’s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother’s keychain, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.

With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful—and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process—A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist’s life.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.

Den heta sommaren 1967 lämnar Patti Smith hemstaden i New Jersey. Hon hoppar av sin lärarutbildning och tar sig till äventyret i New York. Hon är tjugo år gammal och har tröttnat på hemstadens inskränkthet. Hon vill få nya intryck och utvecklas. Och framför allt vill hon skapa. I New York träffar hon sin själsfrände Robert Mapplethorp. De två blir ett par och lever tillsammans i många år. Tillsammans med Robert kommer Patti rakt in i en miljö och atmosfär som sjuder av kreativitet och liv. Båda får de inspiration att utvecklas, och båda kommer de med tiden att nå stor berömmelse och revolutionera sina konstarter; han som fotograf och hon som musiker och poet. Just Kids är en levande skildring av New Yorks avantgardistiska och spännande kulturliv i början av 70-talet. Här får vi möta författare, musiker och konstnärer, och många av dem har påverkat en hel generation och givit avtryck långt utanför New Yorks gränser. Här fanns Sam Shepard, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, William Burroughs, Tom Verlaine och många fler.

Just kids är inte bara ett unikt tidsdokument utan också en varm och innerlig kärleksförklaring till en älskad vän.

A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me. She discovers often at night, often in nature the pleasures of rescuing a fleeting thought. Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths. Smith introduces us to her tribe, a race of cloud dwellers, and to the fierce, vital pleasures of cloud watching and stargazing and wandering.A radiant new autobiographical piece, Two Worlds (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition of Woolgathering), and the author s photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smith s beautiful style, acclaimed as glorious (NPR), spellbinding (Booklist), rare and ferocious (Salon), and shockingly beautiful (New York Magazine).