![]() ![]() “Spanish pilgrims go on Camino de Santiago from monastery to monastery, collecting small medals to attach to their rosary as proof of their steps. ![]() The pilgrimage, for Smith, is an inward trip, as imagined as it is real, whether it is a journey to Sylvia Plath’s or Akira Kurosawa’s grave or a junket to Mexican coffee country. ![]() Never far away from one of her talismans, she seeks signs and practices remembrance almost as a yoga. Patti Smith’s medievalism, replete with rituals and relics, signs and synchronicity, is practiced in her pilgrimages around the world. ![]() While so many of Patti Smith’s literary heroes and loved ones were creatures of the 20 th Century – “they are all stories now” – hers is a medieval mind on a pilgrimage through a world oversaturated with meaning, beguiled by mystery. These are some of the episodes remembered and recorded by Smith in her latest volume of memoirs, M Train. Patti Smith’s voyage to Veracruz to try what William Burroughs had told her was the best coffee in the world. An invitation to speak in Berlin at a meeting of the Continental Drift Club (CDC), an obscure scientific society dedicated to “the perpetuation of remembrance”. An uncanny encounter in Reykjavik between Patti Smith and Bobby Fischer, in which they stay up all night singing songs by Buddy Holly and the Four Seasons. ![]()
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