Auguries of Innocence
Smith, Patti
- Publisher: New York: Ecco
- Date published: 2005
New York: Ecco, 2005 First edition, first printing. Signed by Smith on title page. Publisher's white cloth, with Smith's initials and publisher imprint in blind to front board, and spine lettered in gilt; in its original gray dust jacket designed by High Design, with a Polaroid photo of two cherub friezes to front panel, lettered in white, black, and red. Fine book; fine unclipped dust jacket. Overall, a pristine copy. Patti Smith's first poetry collection in more than ten years, Auguries of Innocence contains poems including "The Lovecrafter," "Sleep of the Dodo," "The Long Road," "Birds of Iraq," "The Geometry Blinked Ruin Unimaginable," and "Mummer Love." "Birds of Iraq" is a particularly interesting poem, weaving the United States' bombing of Baghdad with biographical details of Virginia Woolf. The book's title comes from William Blake's same-titled poem, and Smith includes a couplet from Blake's poem as an epigraph: "A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing." "[Patti Smith's] influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original; her poems are oracles for our times." . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
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