The Torch Singer
Patti Smith has been a rock star for more than twenty-five years, in spite of some eccentric career choices.
"She found a copy of Arthur Rimbaud's 'Illuminations' in a bargain book bin in the bus terminal, along with old copies of the Evergreen Review, a journal that in the early and mid-sixties was publishing Jean Genet and William Burroughs." — Patti Smith's life-changing finds