Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It
marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our
world in powerful anthems ballads and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of
poems Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours journeymen wordsmiths and artists
who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are
eclectic and striking: Blake Rimbaud Picasso Arbus and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an
American original her poems are oracles for our times.
