Just Kids
Patti Smith, 2010
A rock poet's coming-of-age in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe: cheap rooms, sacred art, and the making of two artists.
Patti Smith
Patti Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007; three years later, Just Kids won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Feels like nostalgia, friendship and art.
The summer history sped up and one woman wanted to stop it.
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. Books by Patti Smith
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