Patti Smith Summary

Critical Essay by Marianne Partridge Patti Smith certainly has one hell of a lot to answer for. Not only does she unashamedly use her band as a backcloth for her pretentious "poetic" ra... Read more

Critical Essay by Dave Marsh On [Radio Ethiopia] Patti Smith lays back, refusing to assert herself as she did on last year's Horses. The key is in the billing: on Radio Ethiopia, her group dom... Read more

Critical Essay by Albert H. Johnston Rock star Patti Smith is one of the newer phenomena on the far-out youth scene, one of the most brilliantly gifted pop performers and poets since Dylan. Here [in ... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Cott The writer Grace Paley once talked in an interview about the fact that many women missed the sense of boyhood when they were children, "the freedom and exciteme... Read more

Critical Essay by Charles M. Young Patti Smith has set about creating a movement to free the world through rock & roll. Her personal charm, when she wants it to be, is enormous. Her followers are... Read more

Critical Essay by Tony Glover [There's] a new kind of poetry being made—a poetry that exists in equal partnership with the rhythm and sound of music, poetry that needs performing to mak... Read more

Critical Essay by Steve Lake You'll find Patti Smith, poetess, in the Gotham Book Mart, New York's hippest bookstore, where her slim volumes of manic poetry nestle snugly between volume... Read more

Critical Essay by John Rockwell Patti Smith is the hottest rock poet to emerge from the fecund wastes of New Jersey since Bruce Springsteen. But Smith is not like Springsteen or anybody else at all. ... Read more