Good Bones
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Good Bones

Brand: Tupelo Press
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UPC: 9781946482013
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Author: Maggie Smith
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  • Perfect Paperback: 114 pages
  • Publisher: Tupelo Press; 2018 Trade Ingram/Ls ed. edition (October 1, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1946482013
  • ISBN-13: 978-1946482013
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.5 x 8.8 inches

 Featuring "Good Bones," which has made a difference to so many people around the globe -- called "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International

Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These poems stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility and addressing a larger world.

Reviews

"As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'" --D. A. Powell

"Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark, the poems in Good Bones are lyrically charged love letters to a world in desperate need of her generous eye." --Ada Limon

"In her wondrous new poetry collection, Maggie Smith has much to tell us. And she does so with such a clean, aching clarity of lyricism that I freshly discover with real surprise now frequently exhausted human touchstones. It's Smith's dynamically precise and vivid images, and her uncanny ability to find just the right word or action to crack open our known experience, that make Good Bones an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson." --Erin Belieu --Advance Praise

Author

Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks. Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, among others.

Her poem "Good Bones" has gone viral -- tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama "Madam Secretary," and called the "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year.