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Good Bones. By Maggie Smith. Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine. in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways. I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least. fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative.
Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
‘Good Bones‘ by Maggie Smith explores the idea that the world is not necessarily a morally good place. She focuses on the idea that the world is ‘fifty percent terrible’, that being a ‘conservative estimate’.
Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. Available as a signed broadside from Tupelo Press
Oct 6, 2020 · Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” made her America's poet of hope in hard times. Can her new book make her a guru of literary self-help?
‘Good Bones’ is the best-known poem by the contemporary American poet Maggie Smith (born 1977) and the title poem of her third full-length poetry collection, Good Bones (2017).
Oct 2, 2017 · Informed by the sacrifice, trepidation, and awe of early motherhood—’a spell/that is only now beginning to break’—Good Bones presents a rollicking array of lyrics, myths, and meditations. Notable for their heart, understatement, and deceptive accessibility, Smith’s poems yearn to reconcile how a world of wonders can remain a world of ...
Maggie Smith. Maggie Smith is the author of The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize; Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award; and three chapbooks, the latest of which is Disasterology (Dream Horse Press, 2016). A 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Smith ...
Good Bones - Life is short, though I keep this from my children. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
Maggie Smith. Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005). Date Published: 2016-11-11. Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/good-bones.
