SMITH POETRY SKILLS COME FROM STOLEN BOOK

Last updated: Friday, January 19, 2007

SMITH POETRY SKILLS COME FROM STOLEN BOOK

PATTI SMITH will never forget the book that inspired her to be a punk poet - she stole it from a shop when she was 16.

PATTI SMITH performing in concert. Amsterdam, Holland - 18.08.05

The priestess of punk spied RIMBAUD's ILLUMINATIONS when she was working in a factory, but couldn't afford to buy the book.

She recalls, "So the first ever book of poetry I got for myself, I stole.

"It was at a bus depot where they had stalls of used books, and a lot of them were dirty books, y'know, weird magazines with naked girls on the cover, but in the middle of all that they had a copy of Rimbaud's Illuminations.

However, the HORSES star doesn't feel too guilty - she ended up replacing the book with another poetry smash.

She adds, "I don't think it caused the fall of the bus depot's bookshop. Some time later I took a book that I didn't really want and I put it there, so I used the bus depot as my little library.

"So I was never sorry that I nicked it."

Source: WENN

| Friday, January 19, 2007

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