Harper Academic

Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015

by Patti Smith

On Sale: 11/22/2016

Price: $20.00

Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015

by Patti Smith

On Sale: 11/22/2016

Format:

Price: $20.00

About the Book

Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith’s Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Horses, Smith’s groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs and liberally illustrated with original manuscripts of lyrics from Smith’s extensive archive. 

Patti Smith’s work continues to retain its relevance, whether controversial, political, romantic, or spiritual. Collected Lyrics offers forty-five years of song, an enduring commemoration of Smith’s unique contribution to the canon of rock and roll.

Critical Praise

Praise for the Original Edition: “The first great rock’n’roll collection to be published since Dylan’s Lyrics: 1962-1985.” — Salon

“Her influence in music today is undeniable. There’s not anybody I know in a band anywhere who does not revere the records she put out. There was a rawness and energy to Horses that I had not heard in any other music. From then on, my life was changed.” — Michael Stipe, R.E.M.

“Patti Smith is not only a great performer, she is a shaman—that is, someone in touch with other levels of reality.” — William S. Burroughs

“Collected Lyrics shows [Smith’s] living energy as words…” — Los Angeles Times

“The shamanic impulse-invocation of spirits, channeling of the voices of dead poets, prayer to unknown forces-pulses through the three hundred pages or so of Smith’s Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015…” — New York Review of Books

“To see Smith’s galvanizing lyrics on the page, without musical embellishment, is to encounter the essence of her art-the radiant spectrum of her concerns, the razor-edge of her wit, and the depth of her emotions.” — Booklist

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780062345165
  • ISBN 10: 0062345168
  • Imprint: Ecco
  • On Sale: 11/22/2016
  • Trimsize: 6.000 in (w) x 9.000 in (h) x 0.880 in (d)
  • Pages: 320
  • List Price: $20.00
  • BISAC1 : MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk
  • BISAC2 : MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
  • BISAC3 : MUSIC / Lyrics