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30/100Critics
88/100Scholars
Author:
Patti Smith
Publisher:
New Directions
Date:
October 26, 2021
An ode to childhood and to "woolgathering" as the wellspring for a creative lifeânow in an expanded paperback edition.
What The Reviewers Say
Capturing moments of her adult life, Smith pares down her prose to a state of vivid impressionism, so enigmatic that even ordinary acts – preparing mint tea, nodding off while sewing – take on spiritual weight. Smith cuts a lonely figure, offering a clearer view of herself in the act of observing than of what she observes.
Smith is well attuned to the otherworldly dimension of dreams and cosmic visions.
Smith's concise, lyrical essays invite the reader to dwell on the text.
A slim, poetic memoir.
