Patti Smith

Patti Smith is a poet, performer, visual artist, and author of M Train and the National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids. She has twelve albums, has had numerous gallery shows, and continues to give concerts of her music and poetry. Her books include Early Work, The Coral Sea, Witt, Babel, Auguries of Innocence, Woolgathering, Land 250, Trois, and many others. In 2022, Smith was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation in recognition of her outstanding lifetime achievement. She lives in New York.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith is a poet, performer, visual artist, and author of M Train and the National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids. She has twelve albums, has had numerous gallery shows, and continues to give concerts of her music and poetry. Her books include Early Work, The Coral Sea, Witt, Babel, Auguries of Innocence, Woolgathering, Land 250, Trois, and many others. In 2022, Smith was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation in recognition of her outstanding lifetime achievement. She lives in New York.

Books by Patti Smith

  • The Coral Sea

    Patti Smith

    Paperback, 2012

    Before the National Book Award-winning Just Kids, Patti Smith addressed the life and passing of her intimate friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
  • Early Work: 1970-1979

    Patti Smith

    Paperback, 1995

    Selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene.
  • Woolgathering

    Patti Smith

    Hardback, 2011

    The National Book Award–winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about “clear unspeakable joy” and “just the wish to know.”
  • Woolgathering

    Patti Smith

    Paperback, 2021

    An ode to childhood and to “woolgathering” as the wellspring for a creative life—now in an expanded paperback edition
  • An Accidential Autobiography

    Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan, Patti Smith

    Paperback, 2003

  • A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat

    Arthur Rimbaud, Patti Smith, Louise Varèse

    Second Edition, Paperback, 2011

    A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.
  • The Divorce

    César Aira, Chris Andrews, Patti Smith

    Paperback, 2021

    With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate...
  • The Divorce

    César Aira, Chris Andrews, Patti Smith

    E Book, 2021

    With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate...
  • A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat

    Arthur Rimbaud, Patti Smith, Louise Varèse

    Second Edition, E Book, 2012

    A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.