Bread of Angels

Patti Smith’s most recent prose work returns to the territory of Just Kids and M Train — the intersection of memory, loss, creative work, and the specific textures of the places and objects that make a life. Written in her characteristic style, which combines the directness of a diary with the imagistic precision of poetry, the book gathers meditations on the figures who have shaped her world — artists, writers, musicians, the dead who remain present in the mind long after they have left the body.

Smith is one of the most genuinely original literary voices of the past fifty years, and this late work shows her at her most distilled — moving with complete freedom between the personal and the universal, between the specific and the transcendent.

Essential for Smith devotees and for anyone who values writing that treats the life of the artist as its primary subject. Published by Bloomsbury.