海角大神

In Just Kids, Patti Smith鈥檚 coming-of-age memoir set in the late 1960s, early-鈥�70s New York art and music scene, the now 60-something punk rock icon reveals a gentler more lyrical heart than does her intelligent but hard-edged poetry set to music. I鈥檓 really liking this strong woman and getting a vicarious thrill in walking with her in her starving-artist鈥檚 huaraches as she falls in love with a young Robert Mapplethorpe, becomes his muse, and mingles with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Sam Shepard, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. I feel like I鈥檓 鈥渕aking the scene鈥� ... finally.