By Martin Scholz (Die World)
From now on, she only grants interviews by telephone.
But when we reach Patti Smith on her mobile phone at the appointed time, we hear around her a hubbub, as if she were in a train station.
Many people seem to speak English with a French accent.
Bad timing.
Currently the American punk poetess is preparing a new exhibition at the Center Pompidou in Paris, in which some of her texts and photos will be presented, but also poems by the French writers Rimbaud and Artaud, which she will recite.
When we propose to postpone the interview to the evening, the 75-year-old artist seems as grateful as she is relieved.
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His new book has just been published under the title "
A Book of Days
" and presents 365 photos accompanied by small texts.
If some of these photos were taken with her old polaroid, she has since moved on to the camera of her mobile phone which now allows her to better…
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