''Babel'' is a book by
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946)
is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album '' Horses''.
Called the "punk poe ...
, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.
Contents
Radio Ethiopia
# "Notice"
# "Italy"
# "The Tapper Extracts"
# "Grant"
# "Street of the Guides"
# "Rimbaud Dead"
# "Sohl"
# "Neo Boy"
# "Dog Dream"
# "Mirza"
# "The Stream"
# "The Dream of Rimbaud"
# "Doctor Love"
Alien to Alien
# "Munich"
# "
High on Rebellion"
# "
Ain't It Strange"
# "Egypt"
# "Rape"
# "
Space Monkey"
# "Suite"
Sister Morphine
# "Notice 2"
# "Judith"
# "
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Amer ...
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# "
A Fire of Unknown Origin"
# "
Edie Sedgewick
Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress and fashion model, known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars.Watson, Steven (2003), "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties" Pantheon Books, pp. 210& ...
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# "Judith Revisited"
# "
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British I ...
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# "
Sister Morphine
"Sister Morphine" is a song written by Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Faithfull released the original version of the song as the B-side to her Decca Records single "Something Better" on 21 February 1969. A different versi ...
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Pipe Dreams
# "Bread"
# "Sterling Forest"
# "Grass"
# "Vandal"
# "The Amazing Tale of Skunkdog"
# "Konya the Shepherd"
# "Sandayu the Separate"
# "Conteé"
# "Saba the Bird"
# "Thermos"
# "Enculé"
Mohammedia
# "The Sheep Lady from Algiers"
# "Penicillin"
# "
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director.
Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, Ellipsis (narrative device), ellipses, and s ...
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# "Carnival! Carnival!"
# "k.o.d.a.k."
# "Mad Juana"
# "The Salvation of Rock"
Corps de Plane
# "Corps de Plane"
# "
Jeanne Darc"
# "Jenny"
# "Health Lantern"
# "
Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word ''hymn'' ...
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# "The Ninth Hole"
# "Thread"
# "A Fleet of Deer"
# "
Easter
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the '' Book of Common Prayer''; "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher''The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, Volume 4'') and Samuel Pepys''The Diary of Samuel ...
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Babel
# "Chain Gang"
# "Babel"
# "Pinwheels"
# "Comic Warrior"
# "
Babelogue
''Easter'' is the third studio album by the Patti Smith Group. It was released in March 1978 by Arista Records. Produced by Jimmy Iovine, the album is regarded as the group's commercial breakthrough, owing to the success of the rock single " Beca ...
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# "Combe"
# "Babel Field"
# "Zug Island"
Notes
External links
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Babelat
The New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...
American poetry collections
Poetry by Patti Smith
1978 books
Books by Patti Smith
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