03812cam a2200553 i 4500 2698198632 TxAuBib 20260305120000.0 250701s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025024812 9781101875124 hardcover 1101875127 hardcover (OCoLC)1527217257 TxAuBib rda Smith, Patti, author. Bread of angels / Patti Smith. Bread of angels : a memoir. First edition. New York : Random House, [2025] ©2025. 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "A memoir"--Dust jacket. The age of reason -- The gardens -- Illuminations -- Art/rats -- Dancing barefoot -- My madrigal -- Mortal shoes -- Grant -- Peaceable kingdom -- A drop of blood -- Vagabondia. "God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Smith starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic recordings and songs such as Horses and Easter, "Dancing Barefoot" and "Because the Night." She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred "Sonic" Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again-the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live."-- Random House. 20260305. Smith, Patti. Smith, Patti. fast 1900-1999. fast Women punk rock musicians United States Biography. Punk rock musicians United States Biography. Women rock musicians United States Biography. Women poets 20th century Biography. Poets, American 20th century Biography. Punk rock musicians. fast Women rock musicians. fast Women poets. fast Poets, American. fast Women punk rock musicians. fast United States. fast Autobiographies. fast Autobiographies. fast Biographies. fast