Between Grief and Joy

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Time's Elasticity

Time's Elasticity

A day in conversation with Pattie Smith's year

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Yolande Clark-Jackson
Jun 08, 2025
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This week I met Pattie Smith in a Garden in Osprey, Florida and I realized that this work, her music, her words have always worked to show us what is here, what is gone and what is Gone Again.

Patti Smith has always understood that time moves differently for artists and feelers. The same punk poet who gave us Horses. A Book of Days, and Just Kids approa…

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