
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL & NEW PHOTOGRAPHS M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee ruminates on the world as it is & the world as it was & writes in her notebook Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams & reality past & present & across a landscape of creative aspirations & inspirations we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; & to the graves of Genet Plath Rimbaud & Mishima Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft & on artistic creation Here too are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan & the irremediable loss of her husband Fred Sonic Smith Braiding despair with hope & consolation illustrated with her signature Polaroids M Train is a meditation on travel detective shows literature & coffee It is a powerful deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable artists at work today