Auguries of Innocence (poetry collection)

For the poem of the same name by William Blake, see Auguries of Innocence.
Auguries of Innocence
Author Patti Smith
Cover artist Patti Smith
Country United States
Language English
Genre Poetry
Publisher Ecco Press
Publication date
 October 11, 2005
Media type Hardcover, Paperback
Pages 80
ISBN 978-0-06-083266-7
OCLC 60375652
811/.54 22
LC Class PS3569.M53787 A94 2005

Auguries of Innocence is a poetry collection by Patti Smith, published in 2005.[1] This collection of poetry includes exactly twenty-six recent poems penned by the active, contemporary poet. Drawing on some of her many influences such as William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud, Smith's collection here demonstrates over and over again her knack for detail. Obviously William Blake is a dominant influence on the poet herself, since it shares its title, Auguries of Innocence, with one of William Blake's poems. Upon reviewing both collections it is clearly obvious that both collections share more commonalities than just similar titles. One commonality between this collection and that by Blake's, in regards to the content, is that the poems collected here exhibit subtle nods to Blake. For example, in one of her poems, The Long Road, by the end of the very first verse the reader has already been exposed to such suggestive visuals as the speaker of the poem sleeping in chimneys and chewing on bulbs, as well as the speaker "sweeping time". Such visuals of Smith's conjure up recollections in the seasoned and experienced reader's mind of Blake's The Chimney Sweeper and The Blossom. While the majority of the twenty-six collected poems have some type of stanza-like arrangement the poet also incorporates several free-verse style poems into the collection, such as Mummer Love, Eve of All Saints, Our Jargon Muffles The Drum, and Written By A Lake.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2008-03-19.

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