Patti Smith Witt (1973) poetry book, front cover with Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid portrait of Smith.
Title page spread of Witt with Howard Michels' line drawing facing the imprint Gotham Book Mart 1973.
Dedication page of Witt to Allen Lanier, Arthur Rimbaud and William Burroughs.
Page from Patti Smith's Witt with a prose poem set in numbered sections.
Page from Witt with a list poem set in a single narrow column.
Open spread from Witt by Patti Smith with poems across facing pages.
Page from Witt with a prose poem, Gotham Book Mart, New York 1973.
Patti Smith Witt (1973) poetry book, front cover with Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid portrait of Smith.
Title page spread of Witt with Howard Michels' line drawing facing the imprint Gotham Book Mart 1973.
Dedication page of Witt to Allen Lanier, Arthur Rimbaud and William Burroughs.
Page from Patti Smith's Witt with a prose poem set in numbered sections.
Page from Witt with a list poem set in a single narrow column.
Open spread from Witt by Patti Smith with poems across facing pages.
Page from Witt with a prose poem, Gotham Book Mart, New York 1973.
Patti Smith Witt (1973) poetry book, front cover with Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid portrait of Smith.
Title page spread of Witt with Howard Michels' line drawing facing the imprint Gotham Book Mart 1973.
Dedication page of Witt to Allen Lanier, Arthur Rimbaud and William Burroughs.
Page from Patti Smith's Witt with a prose poem set in numbered sections.
Page from Witt with a list poem set in a single narrow column.
Open spread from Witt by Patti Smith with poems across facing pages.
Page from Witt with a prose poem, Gotham Book Mart, New York 1973.
Patti Smith Witt (1973) poetry book, front cover with Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid portrait of Smith.
Title page spread of Witt with Howard Michels' line drawing facing the imprint Gotham Book Mart 1973.
Dedication page of Witt to Allen Lanier, Arthur Rimbaud and William Burroughs.
Page from Patti Smith's Witt with a prose poem set in numbered sections.
Page from Witt with a list poem set in a single narrow column.
Open spread from Witt by Patti Smith with poems across facing pages.
Page from Witt with a prose poem, Gotham Book Mart, New York 1973.
Patti Smith Witt (1973) poetry book, front cover with Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid portrait of Smith.
Title page spread of Witt with Howard Michels' line drawing facing the imprint Gotham Book Mart 1973.
Dedication page of Witt to Allen Lanier, Arthur Rimbaud and William Burroughs.
Page from Patti Smith's Witt with a prose poem set in numbered sections.
Page from Witt with a list poem set in a single narrow column.
Open spread from Witt by Patti Smith with poems across facing pages.
Page from Witt with a prose poem, Gotham Book Mart, New York 1973.

PATTI SMITH - WITT

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Publisher: Gotham Book Mart, New York
Year: 1973
Edition: First Edition — Fourth Printing
Cover Polaroid: Robert Mapplethorpe
Title-page Drawing: Howard Michels
Dimensions: 21.6 × 14 cm
Language: English
Format: Softcover
Pages: 43
ISBN: 0-910664-33-1 (paper)
Condition: Fine — exceptionally well preserved, with no imperfections, marks, discoloration, or visible signs of wear to the cover or interior. An exceptionally clean copy.

Witt is Patti Smith’s 1973 collection of poetry, published by Gotham Book Mart, the legendary Midtown Manhattan bookstore and publishing house that had long championed avant-garde literature and experimental writing.

The cover features a Polaroid portrait of Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe, made during the years in which the two shared their lives, work, and artistic development in New York. The image has since become closely associated with Smith’s early literary period and the downtown scene that surrounded her.

The book is dedicated to Allen Lanier, Arthur Rimbaud, and William S. Burroughs—the lover, the poetic patron saint, and the outlaw elder who together form a constellation around Smith’s world before Horses. The poem “Judith Revisited” includes two haiku by photographer Judy Linn, while the title page carries a drawing by Howard Michels.

Published a year after Seventh Heaven and Kodak, Witt belongs to the small-press books and broadsides through which Smith established her voice as a poet before transforming that language into performance and rock and roll.

This copy is from the fourth printing of the first edition, as stated on the copyright page, and represents an important early document of Smith’s literary practice and her emergence within the New York downtown art and poetry underground.

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