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Patti Smith: Babel

Ian Penman, NME, 11 November 1978

WHAT HAS rock and roll got to do with poetry? What is a poetess doing with rock and roll? What am I doing reading and reviewing Babel when I could be doing the same thing with the new Gunter Grass novel?

Total word count of piece: 802

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