帕蒂史密斯新作后视镜中回望人生_时事

帕蒂史密斯新作后视镜中回望人生

Patti Smith’s achingly beautiful new book, “M Train,is a kaleidoscopic ballad about the losses dealt out by time and chance and circumstance.Losing her husband, the guitarist Fred (Sonic) Smith, to heart failure in 1994 at the age of 45.Losing her brother, Todd, a month later to a stroke. Losing her early New York friend androommate, Robert Mapplethorpe, to AIDS in 1989. Her book is about moving from a time whenher children were little and “the things I touched were living (“my husband’s fingers, adandelion, a skinned knee) to a time when she increasingly began to capture and memorializemoments from her life in photos and words — to create, as an artist, talismanic souvenirs ofthe past. Of which this book is one.

帕蒂·史密斯(Patti Smith)凄美动人的新书《M列车》(M Train)如同一曲千变万化的歌谣，吟唱随时间、际遇与环境所失去的一切。1994年，她的丈夫，吉他手弗莱德·“音速·史密斯(Fred [Sonic] Smith)年仅45岁就死于心脏病。一个月后，她的兄弟托德(Todd)又死于中风。她早年在纽约的朋友与室友罗伯特·梅普尔索普(Robert Mapplethorpe)则在1989年死于艾滋病。这本书是关于她人生阶段的转变——曾几何时，她的孩子们年纪还小，“我所触碰的一切都还是活生生的(“丈夫的手指、一朵蒲公英、削瘦的膝盖);如今，她开始更多地捕捉和缅怀自己曾在照片和文字中记载的生活，以艺术家的身份，为旧日时光创作出护身符式的纪念品。这本书也是其中的一件。