The poet laureate of punk,?Patti Smith?burst onto a vacuous music scene in the mid-1970s with a raw and revolutionary sound?steeped as much in French symbolist poetry as it was in 1960s garage rock?an
Before The Sex Pistols, before The Clash, before The Ramones, there was?Patti?Godmother of punk?Drawing on sources in music, literature, and art, as well as all-new interviews with those close to the