In her first interview directly after the pandemic, award-winning author, singer-songwriter, and poet, Patti Smith, spoke to Jefferson Hack about her life, travels and dreams, including her first trip to New York in 1967. Their wanderlust-fuelled conversation touches on her spiritual guides – from Sylvia Plath to Jean Genet and Arthur Rimbaud, whose reconstructed childhood home she bought in 2017 – and she reveals how she packs, and the talismans she carries with her everywhere and the special meanings behind them.
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