{"id":14068,"date":"2019-04-20T02:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T02:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14068"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:27:50","slug":"patti-smith-devotion-why-i-write-signed-first-edition-in-dust-jacket","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/patti-smith-devotion-why-i-write-signed-first-edition-in-dust-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Smith: Devotion (Why I Write) signed, first edition in dust jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic-its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture&#8217;s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.<\/p>\n<p>Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession-a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus&#8217;s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil&#8217;s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano&#8217;s novels. Whether writing in a cafe or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.<\/p>\n<p>The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Patti Smith, Devotion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6NLj-NtMEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>New copy as issued in dust Jacket, first edition, first printing signed by the author, Yale University Press, 2017 <\/strong> [d3br]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this groundbreaking book, by one of our culture&#8217;s beloved artists and offers a detailed account of her own personal creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79636,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[106,107,108,101,169],"product_tag":[287,332],"class_list":["post-14068","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-essays-belle-lettres","product_cat-first-editions","product_cat-poetry","product_cat-poetry-rare-used-op","product_cat-rock","product_tag-patti-smith","product_tag-signed-first-edition","product_shipping_class-priority_medium","first","outofstock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}