Woolgathering

By
Patti Smith
Bloomsbury Publishing
PLC
 A story of becoming an artist, by the godmother of rock'n'roll: the
National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Patti Smith

'A poet of distinction' New York Times

'Glorious' NPR
'Rare and ferocious' Salon
'Shockingly beautiful' New York Magazine

Everything contained in this little book is true, and written just like
it was. The writing of it drew me from my strange torpor and I hope
that in some measure it will fill the reader with a vague and curious
joy...

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 cafes.

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.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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