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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
‘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 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?
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 ...
