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Patti Smith var 70 år i 2016 og bogen er en beskrivelse af 2016 set gennem hende.
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Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.… (more)
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Like Ali Smith, the nearest comparison i can make, though Ali is fiction, this Smith non, memoir, but both are unique in the writing field. Sometimes it was hard to decipher what was the dream, the actual experience? How does it apply to her reality now as it is, or was? Still can't quite figure Ernest's part, but despite that her words, the way she uses them often had me transfixed. Does her mind ever shutdown, her thoughts stop?
I listened to this, she reads and it was wonderful to here her recent musings, thoughts, in her own smokey voice.
Let me quote the book’s jacket, “Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland.” I loved being drawn in, as she travels the California coast near Santa Cruz, describes her time in the Arizona desert, travels to a farm in Kentucky, and visits her declining personal mentor/producer/manager, Sandy Pearlman, in a hospital. It was Pearlman (a rock critic) who approached Smith very early on and told her that she should front a rock band. Patti’s response was straightforward (and pure music to this former bookseller’s ears), “I just laughed and told him I had a good job working in a bookstore.”
In this memoir, she is dealing with the intense sorrow of losing her friends (Sam Shepard and Pearlman), the collective shame and pain of our national politics, the heaviness of modern life, thoughts of her past, and her approaching 70th birthday. She reflects on all of it, and searches for and finds hope for the future.
She was there for her former lover, Shepard, as he was struggling with ALS, and trying to finish his very last book, The One Inside. She was his hands as much of the final writing and editing on the book was finished.
I appreciate all the wisdom, wit, writing skill, and heart that she brought to this book, without it ever becoming awkward or heavy-handed. Between the covers of Year of the Monkey, was a fascinating, stimulating, humorous, and always interesting world of the real and the delightfully ethereal.
Cafés, or at least regular doses of strong coffee, clearly play a huge part in Patti Smith’s life, and form the unifying theme of this volume of memoirs, as they did for both M Train and Just Kids. Indeed, T. S. Eliot’s line, ‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons’ might have proved a worthy epigraph. In this volume she describes her travels around America, and principally California, Arizona and Kentucky during 2016. That year was notable for what seemed like a disproportionately high number of celebrity deaths, and Smith muses on this growing roll of bereavement. It proves a particularly difficult year for her as, in addition to a large number of musicians with whom she had some degree of acquaintance, two particularly close friends subside into illness, and then die.
As ever, her prose style is frequently beautiful and moving – somehow completely at odds with the ferocity of her early stage persona. I remember being both exhilarated but also almost frightened while watching her performances from the 1970s, when she would shout and rage at the audience. While the strength of character and self-assurance (I know, I know, a dirty word!) that underpinned those performances clearly remains, age appears to have mellowed her, and there is a contemplative tranquillity about many of these pieces, tinged with sadness though they are.
The trouble with dreaming, I was thinking, is that one can be drawn into a mystery that is no mystery at all, occasioning absurd observations and discourse leading to not a single reality-based conclusion. It was all to reminiscent of the
Full confession: To my friends' shock, this was the first Patti Smith book I'd read. And how interesting to start here! The year is 2016, and Patti Smith is blending the real with the poetic and dream-like in a way to make it through a year of aging (illness and death of those around her, her own 70th birthday) and the rough waters of the year that brought us the 2016 US election. I felt completely taken in on this journey, and her recollections of past and present had me dog-earing pages and ruminating over single sentences for several moments before moving on.
Before writing this review, I moved immediately on to Just Kids and the contrast between the books (in both setting and style) enhanced them both. I'm most excited to file Year of the Monkey in my bookshelf and turn to it from time to time as I get older, as I think with the book's age and with my own aging the meaning will continue to grow and gain new significance.
I enjoyed the section where she discussed Bolaño's 2666 with three strangers in a diner. I added that book to my reading list for 2021 because of that conversation. This felt to me like the least personal and the most disjointed of her memoirs.
I’ve never read anything by Smith, so this book was a bit of a slog for
Probably this book isn’t for everyone, maybe even not me. I’m still glad I read it because Patti Smith will be known as an important person in music and literature in this country for generations to come.
It is a LOT less focused than Just Kids, often being completely rambling, and the narrative sometimes slips between reality
This book really shows how weird she is, but also just how intelligent and insightful as well. Her insights into art, music, literature, and humanity are incredible.
I'm not sure I'd recommend it to someone, but I'll say I sure loved it.
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Omslaget viser et par gamle støvler
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "Year of the Monkey" af Charlotte Kornerup
Gave fra Camilla Rohde Søndergaard
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