The singer-songwriter’s upcoming book details her teenage years, marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith, and her path to writing again
Patti Smith‘s forthcoming memoir Bread of Angels took a decade to write, and captures “the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime,” according to the singer-songwriter.
In a statement, Smith said that with her new book she hopes “that people will find something they need.” According to a summary of the book, this will be the artist’s “most intimate” memoir yet and follows Smith through her teenage years, journey writing poetry and recording her iconic work such as Horses and Easter, and marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith as they were embarking on “new adventures as they start their family.”
“As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again — the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope,” reads a synopsis of the book.
In an Instagram post announcing her new work, Smith shared a photo of herself alongside her parents and captioned, “This is with my mother and father who inspired much of my next book Bread of Angels. The memoir, a bright and dark dance of life.” Bread of Angels will arrive on Nov. 4 via Random House.
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Her third memoir follows 2010’s Just Kids — which captures Smith’s relationship with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late Sixties and early Seventies, and incudes her encounters with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, William Burroughs, and the Andy Warhol crowd — and 2015’s M Train, whose audiobook recording earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album.
In February, Smith announced her Horses 50th anniversary tour where she will perform her debut album of the same name in full and will feature guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on the original 1975 recording.
