M Train begins its journey from the realm of dream with a charming and particularly laconic cowboy.
“It's not so easy writing about nothing.”
Patti Smith is the train driver, who captures images of her life, memories that are not lost, but come to life with her special thought.
It is “the roadmap to her life” as she has said and takes us like the time machine in the past, to talk about favorite places, countries she visited and people she loved.
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone?”
The writers and books she considered amazing, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas, Medea...
“Medea does not sing lullabies. She kills her children. Maria was not the perfect singer. She drew power from the depths of her inexhaustible well and conquered the worlds of her world. Still all the erotic disappointments of her heroes had not prepared her for her own ones.”
Patti Smith, who hates to be restrained, especially when they do it for her own good, leads the reader constantly to new stations.
She speaks about Jean Genet, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Rimbaud.
For the years she lived with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith. The man she loved, shared her life with him and gave birth to her two children, leaving New York and her ambitions behind her, to live with him in Detroit until 1994, when she lost him.
For crime series and enjoyment of coffee.
For days and nights full of light or darkness.
For everything that changes, but she wants to remain the same.
Renata Dikeopoulou 10 July 2019