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From the award-winning poet and bestselling author, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR
“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.” —Time
“A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —People
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, 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.
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Goldenrod by Maggie Smith is praised for its emotional depth and sharp poetic insights. The poems transform everyday moments into profound reflections, showcasing Smith's ability to captivate the reader with her heartfelt and honest language. Her work is noted for its blend of gratitude and grief, as well as its exploration of love and resilience in a beautifully wounded world.
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ISBN: 9781982185060
Publisher: Atria Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 September 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Atria Books
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 222g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.
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