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From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process

« Autrefois, les femmes n'existaient pas, et c'est pour cette raison qu'elles sont absentes des livres d'histoire. Il y avait des hommes et parmi eux, un certain nombre de génies. » À travers une succession de dessins hilarants, Jacky Fleming retrace avec ironie l'évolution de la femme dans notre société. Second degré garanti !

This book begins in the 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 between dreams and reality 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