“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty
of the present moment.” —Time From the award-winning poet and
bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry
collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life. With
her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the
nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now,
with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful
collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and
memory. Pulling objects from everyday life—a hallway mirror, a
rock found in her son’s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side
of the road—she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only
Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of
poetry, musing that her phone “doesn’t observe / the high
holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco, / Rosh
Hashanah to rose has hands.” Slate called Smith’s
“superpower as a writer” her “ability to find the perfect
concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with
empathy and honesty.” The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the
contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between
thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is
beautiful.
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2021 |
Authors: |
Maggie Smith
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Dimensions: |
186 x 146 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
128 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-982185-06-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-982185-06-6 |
Barcode: |
9781982185060 |
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