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After the award-winning bestseller "Just Kids", now the childhood memories of the great Patti Smith This wonderfully poetic, touching, personal book by Patti Smith contains texts about her childhood, poems and thoughts about life, time and her contemporaries. The beautifully illustrated volume with numerous photos from the author's possession is the updated continuation of an exclusive limited edition that was published in the USA 20 years ago and is now available in German for the first time. Punk rock icon and poetess. With Patti Smith, they've always gone together. Anyone who picks up this little book is immediately captivated by its poetic tone. Here, someone with enormous sensitivity and creative power throws a spotlight on their own life. Situations from Patti Smith's childhood, which seem to hover somewhere between dream and wakefulness, are given a special urgency. But Patti Smith's words also lend spiritual weight to everyday tasks such as preparing peppermint tea or dozing off during sewing. The wool collectors from her childhood, with whom she wandered around in her dreams as a little girl, form a recurring motif in this small, fine book, which combines poetry and prose in a unique way.