Goldenrod bookcover

Goldenrod

Poems
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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.

Product Details

PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
Publish DateJuly 27, 2021
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconCD-Audio
EAN/UPC9781797130699
Dimensions5.6 X 5.8 X 0.6 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

Maggie Smith is the author of several books including the New York Times bestselling You Could Make This Place Beautiful. She is a 2011 recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has received several individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

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