Dream of Life is an intimate look into the interior life of the musician, artist, and poet Patti Smith. Integrated throughout the book are quotes and private transcripts, along with personal and unpublished photographs that reveals Patti's extraordinary personal journey. Captured are such colourful moments as Patti reciting "Prayer for New York" in 1975, hanging out at the Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe, jamming with colloborator Sam Shepard, Patti's reading of an Allen Ginsberg poem at his funeral, kicking around the beach with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and so much more.