![]() ![]() Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. ![]() You could also use this as a list of books, films and other things all recommended to you by Patti Smith. You can use this post as a guide as you’re reading through the book to see a little more information on a person she might reference but you don’t know, or to play a song she mentions. In a labour of love, I’ve tried to document each one. Patti Smith is an eclectic but prolific purveyor of culture from high-brow art and philosophical references to police procedurals on TV, songs she had stuck in her head and books she is reminded of from childhood. ![]() I will review it, but I will also list all of the references in the book. I’m going to do something a little different for this book review. ![]()
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