**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Beautiful ... A work of creative homage to writers poets
friends and family' OBSERVER A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of
days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images
chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram In 2018 without
any plan or agenda for what might happen next Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo:
her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land
Camera 250 Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids her
radiator her boots and her Abyssinian cat Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with
these miniature windows into Smith's world photographs of her daily coffee the books she's
reading the graves of beloved heroes - William Blake Dylan Thomas Sylvia Plath Simone Weil
Albert Camus. Over time a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape and more than a
million followers responded to Smith's unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions
devotions obsessions and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary
pearls a mother's keychain and a husband's Mosrite guitar. Here too are never-before-seen
photos of life on and off the road train stations obscure cafés a notebook always nearby. In
wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the
world. With 365 photographs taking you through a single year A Book of Days is a new way to
experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet writer and performer. Hopeful elegiac
playful - and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process - A
Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times an inspirational map of an
artist's life.
