On April 27, 2004, Smith released Trampin', which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who died two years earlier. It was her first album on Columbia Records, which later became a sister label to her Arista Records, her previous label. Smith curated the Meltdown festival in London on June 25, 2005, in which she performed Horses live in its entirety for the first time. [39] This live performance was released later in 2004 as Horses/Horses. At this early age, Smith was exposed to her first records, including Shrimp Boats by Harry Belafonte, Patience and Prudence's The Money Tree, and Another Side of Bob Dylan, which her mother gave her. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964 and, following graduation, began work in a factory. [1] [18] She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and placed her for adoption. [18] She later entered Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey.

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Of her effort to write about writing, we might say that Smith ends up saying what a lot of writers who write about writing might say: that it is a calling, that it is done out of necessity, that it aims to improve the world, that it aims to show the best of its author, that it’s hard, that it’s joyous, that it’s under the influence of everything in the author’s life, and that it’s an influence on everything in the author’s life.Goddard, Simon (May 1, 2006). The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life (3rded.). Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 1-905287-14-3 . Retrieved April 8, 2014. a b c d Khanna, Vish (May 2007). "Patti Smith Fights the Good Fight – Timeline". Exclaim!. Canada. Archived from the original on January 24, 2009 . Retrieved December 5, 2008. When I speak to Patti for a second time, it’s just me and her. I ask her how we can convince people of the climate emergency when so many are reluctant to make sacrifices, and during a period in which every concern, no matter how grave or altruistic, is reduced to a culture war. She says she’s never seen times like those we are living in.

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Stefanko, Frank (October 24, 2006). Patti Smith: American Artist. San Rafael: Insight Editions. ISBN 978-1-933784-06-9. Smith, a contemplative writer of gratitude and reverence, . . . deepens her inquiry into the nature of inspiration in this slender, trenchant volume. . . . Gracefully improvisational, as always, Smith offers an unusually poetic, mystical, and transfixing perspective on the mystery of literary creation.”—Donna Seaman, BooklistDevotion. Why I Write. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2017. ISBN 9780300218626. OCLC 989978146. Devotion at Google Books Petrusich, Amanda (December 10, 2016). "A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize". The New Yorker. I think the climate movement is the most important thing on the planet right now. It permeates everything. Civil rights, human rights, women’s rights,” Smith says.

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He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading."-Suzi Feay, Financial TimesIn 2023, Smith was nominated for induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. [83] and was ranked at number 117 on Rolling Stone′s list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. [84] Legacy [ edit ] McNeil, Legs; Gillian McCain (May 9, 2006). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4264-1. Sturges, Fiona (September 18, 2019). "Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith review – memories of the magic and the mundane". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved April 7, 2020. Kreps, Daniel (December 10, 2016). "See Patti Smith Cover Dylan's 'Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' at Nobel Ceremony". Rolling Stone.