M Train

　　《M Train》故事的開端–格林威治村的一個小咖啡廳，那兒是作者派蒂．史密斯（Patti Smith）每天都會來上一杯黑咖啡、沈思世界為何是現在這等樣貌的地方。在派蒂的筆記本裡，一篇篇散文，雋永書寫出一條流暢的思路：夢想與現實、過去與現在，還有那一道道充滿靈感與渴望的絕美風景。

　　在她筆下，我們進駐到女畫家芙列達．卡蘿的墨西哥博物館，到柏林參加北極探險者組織的秘密會議，或是抽離思緒，跟著Patti到紐約避暑勝地法洛克威、那棟在颶風來臨前就已搖搖欲墜的海邊別墅神遊一番。

　　作者的感性與藝術人的創造力，交織出這本書的梗概，其中也包含了Patti在密西根生活的點滴觀察，以及她失去丈夫Fred Sonic Smith那無法彌補的回憶
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　　《M Train》是關於文學、咖啡以及逝去的愛，一本Patti遊走全世界的旅行沈思。本書低調卻充滿能量，是最能了解傳奇藝術家Patti Smith思想的「路線指南」。(文/ 博客來編譯)

　　From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life."

　　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. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

　　Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.

　　Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, 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.

作者簡介

　　Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honour given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith married Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.