Woolgathering (book)

{{Infobox book

| name = Woolgathering

| image = File:Patti Smith - Woolgathering.jpg

| caption = Cover of the 1992 edition

| author = Patti Smith

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Prose poetry

| publisher = Hanuman Books

| pub_date = June 1992

| media_type = Paperback

| pages = 80

| isbn = 978-0-937815-47-2

| oclc = 26954565

}}

Woolgathering is a poetry collection by Patti Smith, published by Hanuman Books in 1992.{{cite web |url=http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/info/books.htm |title=Patti Smith -- Bibliography |accessdate=2008-03-19}} In 2012 she published a 20th anniversary edition with additional material.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/13/woolgathering-patti-smith-review |title=Woolgathering by Patti Smith – review

|first=Helen |last=Zaltzman |author-link=Helen Zaltzman |date=12 May 2012 |newspaper=The Observer |access-date=27 October 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780811219440 |title=Woolgathering |work=Publishers Weekly |date=24 October 2011 |access-date=28 October 2022}}{{cite news |title=Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith's 'Woolgathering' |first=David L. |last=Ulin |date=25 December 2011 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-dec-25-la-ca-patti-smith-20111225-story.html |access-date=28 October 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/woolgathering |title=Woolgathering |work=New York Journal of Books |first=Ariel |last=Balter |access-date=28 October 2022}} The book was reissued again in 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/patti-smith/woolgathering/ |title=Woolgathering |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=1 September 2021 |access-date=28 October 2022}}

The original publication was part of a series of small (approximately 3 inch by 4 inch) 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.