Description
M Train is a lyrical meditation on loss, creativity, and artistic pilgrimage, structured as a journey through eighteen interconnected "stations" that span the globe and the landscape of the human heart. Beginning in a beloved Greenwich Village café where Smith writes each morning, the narrative travels to sacred sites of artistic inspiration—from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul to the graves of literary giants like Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima—while weaving in intimate reflections on the writer's craft and the consolations found in creative work. Throughout this deeply personal memoir, Smith explores the transformative power of memory and place, drawing on her own life in Michigan with her late husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose death became the catalyst for understanding how we survive and transcend loss. Augmented by Smith's own black-and-white Polaroid photographs, M Train is a poetic exploration of how we honor those we've lost and find meaning in the spaces between grief and creation.
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paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 2015
253 pages
ISBN: 9781101875100
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First Published
2015
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for M Train by Patti Smith.