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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending and instant bestselling memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age
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'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.'
In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. With the spirit of reflection and empathy she's known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself.
It is a story about a mother's fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman's love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Something beautiful.
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith is praised for its profound honesty and poetic expressions as it explores themes of grief and joy. Reviewers highlight its ability to distil complex emotions into poignant, concise sentences, offering insights into personal transformation and resilience after loss. The memoir serves as both a reflection on ending a marriage and a celebration of self-discovery and renewal.
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ISBN: 9781805302421
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 September 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 433g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also 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. She has been widely published, appearing in the New York Times, New Yorker, Paris Review, Best American Poetry and more.
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