Woolgathering [first edition]

The National Book Awardâ winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about â clear unspeakable joyâ and â just the wish to know.â A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, â a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me.â She discoversâ often at night, often in natureâ the pleasures of rescuing â a fleeting thought.â Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child â glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths.â Smith introduces us to her tribe, â a race of cloud dwellers,â and to the fierce, vital pleasures of cloud watching and stargazing and wandering. A radiant new autobiographical piece, â Two Worldsâ (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition of Woolgathering), and the authorâ s photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smithâ s beautiful style, acclaimed as â gloriousâ (NPR), â spellbindingâ (Booklist), â rare and ferociousâ (Salon), and â shockingly beautifulâ (New York Magazine). Black-and-white illustrations