A revised and updated version of the artist-s collected lyricsAn American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer. Her work is rooted in poetry, which infused her 1975 landmark album, Horses. A declaration of existence, Horses was described as -three chords merged with the power of the word-; it was graced with the now iconic portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, the subject of her award-winning memoir Just Kids. Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith-s Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Smith-s groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs, including her first, ''Work Song'', written for Janis Joplin in 1970, and her most current, ''Writer-s Song'', to be recorded in 2015. The collection is liberally illustrated with original manuscripts of lyrics from Smith-s exten
