Patti Smith’s Devotion blends lyric essays, poems, and a fairy tale exploring creativity and obsession.
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Patti Smith’s Devotion blends lyric essays, poems, and a fairy tale exploring creativity and obsession.
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"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 solita...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Minor references to historical violence like Stalin's deportations.
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Moderate focus on devotion and spiritual themes in essays.
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Moderate references to historical political events like deportations.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Brief mentions of historical suffering and displacement.
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