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Spotlight on Patti Smith

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Patti Smith came to Greenwich Library on April 12th, 2025 for our annual Poet's Voice event. Check out a title from one of the great writers of our time.

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  • A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith’s singular aesthetic, inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.
    Book, 2022New York : Random House, 2022. — 782.4216 SMITH SMITH
  • Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about “clear unspeakable joy” and “just the wish to know.”
    Book, 2021New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021. — 818 SMITH SMITH
  • Voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones, "Year of the Monkey" is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
    Book, 2019New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019] — 782.4216 SMITH SMITH
  • Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, a…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — 782.4216 SMITH SMITH
  • 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…
    Book, 2017New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] — 811x SMITH SMITH
  • "M Train" is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.
    Book, 2015New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. — 782.4216 SMITH SMITH
  • Forty-five years of song, an enduring commemoration of Smith’s unique contribution to the canon of rock and roll.
    Book, 2015New York, N.Y. : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — 782.4216 SMITH
  • In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language.
    Book, 2005New York : Ecco, 2005. — 811.54 SMITH
  • Strange Messenger

    the Work of Patti Smith

    Smith, Patti
    Bringing together approximately 60 works spanning the past 30 years, Strange Messenger collects early pieces as well as new ones inspired by the September 11, 2001, bombing of the World Trade Center, in which Smith expresses her views about…
    Book, 2002Pittsburgh, Pa. : Andy Warhol Museum, [2002] — 759.13 SMITH SMITH
  • Patti Smith addressed the life and passing of her intimate friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
    Book, 1996New York : W.W. Norton, ©1996. — 811.54 MAPPL SMITH
  • Patti Smith Complete

    Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

    Smith, Patti
    With never-before-seen photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Liebovitz, Kate Simon, and others, plus original artwork and text by Smith, Patti Smith Complete is a living commemoration of Smith's unique contribution to music and the empowerment…
    Book, 1998New York : Doubleday, 1998. — 782.4216 SMITH
  • Selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene.
    Book, 1994New York : Norton, 1994. — 811 SMITH