Patti Smith

Woolgathering

I imagined a lot of things. That I would shine. That I'd be good. I'd dwell bareheaded on a summit turning a wheel that would turn the earth and undetected, amongst the clouds, I would have some influence; be of some avail.

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And in my travels, when I see a hill dotted with sheep or a staff lying among the chestnut leaves, I am moved by a sense of longing to be again what I was not.

Jasmine Ghartey

Now expanded, an ode to childhood and to "woolgathering" as the wellsprings for a life of creativity?when treasured up, recollected, and drawn upon

Ashley Johnson

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Caitlin Bohannon

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National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits her early years in this glittering memoir.

Lili Vanden Wijngaert

In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York's MacDougal Street, the street of cafés. Woolgathering was completed in Michigan, on Patti Smith's 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye's Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, Bloomsbury is proud to present it in a much augmented edition, featuring writing that was omitted from the book's first printing, along with new photographs and illustrations.

Woolgathering

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