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On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solititudesolitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and aging are faced head on, as it the shifting political waters in America.
Patti Smith is a singer-songwriter, musician, author and poet - probably best known for her 1975 album ''Horses'', and subsequent single ''Because the Night'' in 1978. An unpredictable creative force, she's inspired huge numbers of musicians - R.E.M, Garbage, The Smiths, Hole, Madonna and Florence and the Machine among them. Her poems have been published since the early seventies, but her major publishing success was in 2010, with ''Just Kids'' - a memoir that documented Smith's early life and her relationship with the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. This was followed by ''M-Train'' that took the reader into Smith's later life - so this series is nicely closed off by ''Year of the Monkey'' which simply follows Smith for one year.
