Patti Smith's "The Melting"
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with musician, writer, poet, artist and all-around legend Patti Smith about her latest work, The Melting, an extended piece of prose she began releasing last spring in serial form via the internet platform Substack. The Melting, started in the early days of the pandemic, finds Smith alone in her apartment, her world tour having just been canceled. Yearning for the freedom of travel, but stuck at home, her living space begins to yield to other spaces: to dreams, literature, memory, reflection and fictions. The melting of the title refers not just to global warming, but to time itself.
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