Hardcover|400 pagesA deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Awardwinning author ofJust KidsandM Train.More than 365 images chart Smiths singular aesthetic — inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.

In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message Hello Everybody!Known for shooting with her beloved Land 250 Camera, Smith started posting selfies with her phone, portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smiths world, her daily coffee, the books shes reading, the graves of beloved heroes: William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, and Albert Camus. Over the days and months, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape in the extraordinarily personal photographs that chart Smiths passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mothers keychain, and a husbands Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafs, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.
With more than 365 photographs that take you through a single year,A Book of Daysis a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playfuland complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process A Book of Daysis a deeply generous and inspirational map of an artists life.