Devotion (Why I Write)

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don a

In Devotion she tries to answer the question : why do I write ? Suffice to say I for one will be re-reading this book again + again coz of the writing.

Dorian Gray

Made up of only 5 words. Utterly enchanting : poetry as prose. Patti Smith - the Bad Girl of Rock who became its High Priestess - has always been an accomplished writer , producing as many poems as songs, as many books as albums. Ideas often made beautifully concrete by carefully chosen images/photographs + depictions of events, characters, moods + feelings.

And here's the thing about any great writer. Short , sharp sentences. Its the last sentence of the book so I wont give it away !

As well as being entertained (wonderfully) U are also informed. Her Devotion is not just to writing but to the departed : her family, friends, lovers, dead Gods + dead Goddesses. And the answer is given in a single sentence .

I like that it fits in my back pocket and color coded by neighborhood Consider this sentence : It occurs to me that the young look beautiful as they sleep and the old, such as myself, look dead .