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By Maggie Smith. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Sep 3, 2023 · September 3, 2023 The Literary Girl. How do you tell your children about life and all its realities? How do you explain the fact that life is as evil as it is good? In Maggie Smith’s 2016 viral poem “ Good Bones” the speaker resolves to keep the terrible part from her children and offer hope of making the world beautiful instead.
Oct 2, 2017 · One of Entropy‘s Best of 2017. Good Bones 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.
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. estimate, though I keep this from my children.
Oct 1, 2017 · Good Bones. Maggie Smith. 4.27. 2,337 ratings305 reviews. Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children trying to read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot.-- Genres Poetry Nonfiction Parenting Feminism Family Nature Literature. ...more.
Good Bones. 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.
