Babel (book)

{{short description|Poetry book by Patti Smith}} {{other uses|Babel (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox book | name = Babel | image = Babel - Patti Smith.jpg | author = Patti Smith | cover_artist = Lynn Goldsmith | country = United States | language = English | genre = Poetry | publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons | pub_date = 1978 | media_type = Hardcover, Paperback | pages = 202 | isbn = 978-0-399-12102-9 | oclc= 3380074 }}

'''''Babel''''' is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/info/books.htm |title=Patti Smith -- Bibliography |access-date=2008-03-15| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080317154106/http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/info/books.htm| archive-date= 17 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>

== Contents ==

=== Radio Ethiopia === # "Notice" # "Italy" # "The Tapper Extracts" # "Grant" # "Street of the Guides" # "Rimbaud Dead" # "Sohl" # "Neo Boy" # "Dog Dream" # "Mirza" # "The Stream" # "The Dream of Rimbaud" # "Doctor Love"

=== Alien to Alien === # "Munich" # "High on Rebellion" # "Ain't It Strange" # "Egypt" # "Rape" # "Space Monkey" # "Suite"

=== Sister Morphine === # "Notice 2" # "Judith" # "Georgia O'Keeffe" # "A Fire of Unknown Origin" # "Edie Sedgewick" # "Judith Revisited" # "Marianne Faithfull" # "Sister Morphine"

=== Pipe Dreams === # "Bread" # "Sterling Forest" # "Grass" # "Vandal" # "The Amazing Tale of Skunkdog" # "Konya the Shepherd" # "Sandayu the Separate" # "Conteé" # "Saba the Bird" # "Thermos" # "Enculé"

=== Mohammedia === # "The Sheep Lady from Algiers" # "Penicillin" # "Robert Bresson" # "Carnival! Carnival!" # "k.o.d.a.k." # "Mad Juana" # "The Salvation of Rock"

=== Corps de Plane === # "Corps de Plane" # "Jeanne Darc" # "Jenny" # "Health Lantern" # "Hymn" # "The Ninth Hole" # "Thread" # "A Fleet of Deer" # "Easter"

=== Babel === # "Chain Gang" # "Babel" # "Pinwheels" # "Comic Warrior" # "Babelogue" # "Combe" # "Babel Field" # "Zug Island"

== Notes == {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{Google books|AwbCAAAACAAJ|Babel}} * [http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/crit/cottrev.htm Babel] at The New York Times Book Review

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