Auguries Of Innocence: Poems

Auguries of Innocence marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection, Patti Smith joins in that greatest tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who resond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original: her poems are oracles for our times.