Devotion (Why I Write)

In Lyric Essays, A Story, Poems, And Photographs, Smith Illuminates The Whirl Of Chance And Choice That Stokes A Writer's Imagination, Recounting Her Fascination On The Eve Of A Trip To Paris With Simone Weil And An Evocative, Accidentally Discovered Film About Stalin's Mass Deportation Of Estonians. In France, A Gravestone, A Televised Figure-skating Competition, A Meal, And A Garden All Converge In What Becomes Devotion, [a] ... Fairy Tale About A Young, Displaced Estonian Skater And A Solitary Dealer In Rare Objects And Arms. This ... Fable About Creativity And Obsession, Possession And Freedom Is Followed By A Meditation On How A Work Of Art Is, For Other Artists, A Call To Action--booklist, 08/01/2017. How The Mind Works -- Devotion -- A Dream Is Not A Dream. Patti Smith. The 2016 Windham-campbell Lecture--title Page.