Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Patti Smith performing Pale Blue Eyes in Stolckholm 1976

Patti Smith was born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in New Jersey and moved to New York City where she met Mapplethorpe.  She is a poet, songwriter, singer, author, and a ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLL heartthrob!

Her first poetry reading was in 1971. She read this poem, "Oath" while Lenny Kane played on the Guitar. 

"Oath"

"Oath" 1973

Patti Smith says

Perpetuation of remembrance

Certain things pass without souvenir

Loss is powerless second acquisition

Visiting Tombs

                                                      Patti Smith at Bodier's tomb.

Patti Smith visits grave sights of artists she loves and takes polaroid pictures with them.

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, photographed by Norman Seeff at a friend’s apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side, 1969.

Photograph by Norman Seeff.

She wrote Just Kids about her relationship with Mapplethorpe. 

When reading her writing about Robert Mapplethorpe it seems like its just honest writing. Honest about how she looked at Mapplethorpe. I felt like I was in love with him even though I never knew him.