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.
