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Analysis: “Good Bones”. Smith’s “Good Bones” is a free verse poem that consists of a single, 17-lined stanza. Using literary devices such as repetition and anaphora throughout the poem, Smith adds rhythm and sonic qualities to an otherwise free verse poem lacking set meter or rhyme scheme. The poem relies on statements and lists to ...
Maggie Smith is the author of Goldenrod (Simon & Schuster, 2021), Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Simon & Schuster, 2020), Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks.
Good Bones. "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.
about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. Credit This poem originally appeared in Waxwing, Issue 10, in June 2016. Used with permission of the author. Author Maggie Smith Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own
Maggie Smith. Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world ...
The Poetry Foundation. Summary. Smith’s “Good Bones” explores the concept of life and the state of the world through the eyes of a mother. The poem opens with a statement (“Life is short” [Line 1]), repeated three times throughout the poem. Smith’s speaker recognizes the brevity of human life, and the “ill-advised” (Line 3) ways ...
Apr 19, 2017 · Meryl Streep read Maggie Smith’s poem “Good Bones” at the Academy of American Poets’ fifteenth annual Poetry & the Creative Mind gala reading at Lincoln Center on April 19, 2017.
