Great Regulars: One thing I've always admired about

Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not? For Smith, they all come out of the same impulse, a kind of ecstatic self-engagement, in which the line separating life and creativity, the mundane and the mystical, is an illusion, a border we create to bound ourselves.

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith's 'Woolgathering'

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