Woolgathering (book)


Woolgathering is a poetry collection by Patti Smith, published by Hanuman Books in 1992. In 2012 she published a 20th anniversary edition with additional material. The book was reissued again in 2021.
The original publication was part of a series of small books published by Hanuman Books from New York's Hotel Chelsea. The slim book consists of eleven semi-autobiographical prose poems, and was written while Smith was living in Michigan, largely out of the public eye. The poems are interspersed with black-and-white photographs.

Contents

  1. "A Bidding"
  2. "The Woolgatherers"
  3. "Barndance"
  4. "Cowboy Truths"
  5. "Indian Rubies"
  6. "Drawing"
  7. "Art in Heaven"
  8. "Flying"
  9. "A Farewell"