07163cam a2200397 4500 244523846 TxAuBib 20151020120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101875117 1101875119 B00S3RILU8 Amazon 303920e9-9d7c-4f04-ba35-3021dcd32107 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2179536 OverDrive (Product ID) 249083 2179536 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Smith, Patti. M Train [Libby]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 21MB. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML:"Wonderful . . . M Train is about being lost and found. It weaves poetry, dreams, art, literature, and conversational fragments into a phantasmagoric, atmospheric, and transportive whole . . . Smith's journeys take her across decades, continents, and the vistas of her own mind. She is a generous, charming, and brilliant guide. In her loneliness, her cherished possessions take on talismanic significance. . . She has no self-consciousness about the art she loves, and the truths they afford her are honest and hard won. By the end of the book, she has purchased a bungalow, drunk innumerable cups of black coffee, and come to some resolutions about her life, none of them easy or pat." --Eugenia Williamson, The Boston Globe "In the span of M Train, Smith distills ineffable, tragic human existence into a collection of experiences, meditating on the intangible permanence of loss over a lifetime. Through freely associated vignettes and artful snapshots of her life, the artist creates an elegy for objects, people and muses she's left behind. Smith's M Train demonstrates, once again, her ability to turn a phrase or an image on its head. Whether she writes of a dream or a lost coat, she connects threads of memory, pain and the absurdity of human experience. Smith is as captivating narrating a meal as she is illustrating the nature of masterpiece . . . M Train floats languorously from past to present, from dream to waking moment. Smith's work embodies a constant yearning, and the effect of her amalgamated experiences is a picture of life that becomes about accepting loss. There's a conceit carried through the book about writing when there's nothing to say; in Smith's moments of nothing, though, she says everything.". HTML:Heather Scott Partington, Las Vegas Weekly. HTML:"Charming and non-pretentious--full of genuine delight. Smith slips beguilingly between present and past. Once a muse, now she muses. Once an icon of alternative culture, she now loves to sit in anonymity at her favorite Greenwich Village coffeehouse. Thanks to M Train, we can see Smith clearly: a woman who doesn't speak in our era's languages of snark, irony, and one-upmanship. While she's a veteran of punk rock, she doesn't appear to have a reservoir of anger or bitterness. She's hardly forgotten the losses in her life. But she moves forward, ever delighted to see what's now and what's next: 'We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts draw us away.'" --Randy Dotinga, Christian Science Monitor "Smith's lyrical prose is potent . . . insightful. She clearly knows herself. She is a survivor in every sense of the word. Her grappling with loss pours out of the book. The title begs the question: Where does the M Train go? Nowhere. And, everywhere. Perhaps I naively believed that Patti Smith had all the answers. She doesn't. Like all of us, she harbors confusions, gets grumpy without coffee, and holds fascinations with certain people and things. She probes the peculiar depths of human listlessness. It's worth settling down with this book and a cup of joe." --Paula Mejia, Newsweek "Packed with thoughtful prose and keen observations . . . The prose of M Train floats. Patti Smith paints solitude as beguiling and essential. M Train doesn't glorify sadness or loneliness, nor does it suggest that Smith walks this present-day Earth through a tunnel of malaise. Rather, she travels around the world, finding solace in specific cafes in every city. She keeps her own company, and her sense of humor remains intact. Smith has always been a poet first and foremost--before she was ever a performer. Here, she has created a book that so many of us wish to write, one that parses what it all means. Smith doesn't sound like she has it all figured out, but she does have stories that serve as markers in her journey as an artist." --Kathy Iandoli, Pitchfork "This gorgeously written book--sprinkled with richly detailed memoires of Fred Smith and often dreamlike i. Emily Barasch, vogue.com. HTML:National Best Seller 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. From the Hardcover edition.. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-10-20 20:00:02. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=303920e9-9d7c-4f04-ba35-3021dcd32107 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=303920e9-9d7c-4f04-ba35-3021dcd32107&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=303920e9-9d7c-4f04-ba35-3021dcd32107&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=303920e9-9d7c-4f04-ba35-3021dcd32107&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CCTYL