Devotion - Why I Write - Patti Smith hip hop When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers

Deeply descriptive and remarkably poetic

sometimes hilarious

While previous books have told their story in a biographical sense

Devotion - Why I Write - Patti Smith hip hop When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trainedDevotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought provoking enough to deserve re reading.Suzi Feay, Financial Times Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic A work of creative brilliance may seem like magicits source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this