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   What is the theme of Good Bones?

   • “Good Bones” is a single 17-line stanza and explores themes of existence, the state of the world, and how to happily and peacefully live in a world mired in violence. Smith’s speaker is a mother struggling to keep the nastiness of the world from her children. A poem that explores “what it means to raise children in fraught times” (Foust, Rebecca.

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   What does the poem 'Good Bones' mean?

   • The poem was called “Good Bones,” and it elegantly, wittily distilled a very particular feeling of being afraid about the world and daunted by the challenge of raising kids in it. “Life is short,” the poem begins, “though I keep this from my children.”

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   Will 'Good Bones' transform Maggie Smith into a guru of literary self-help?

   • Four years after “Good Bones” went viral, in the midst of an even grimmer moment in American history, this new book feels like a clear bid to transform Maggie Smith from a famous (for a poet) poet into a guru of literary self-help.

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   What is good bones about?

   • Shared on Twitter, the poem quickly gained attention and became a mouthpiece for the confusing world in which readers suddenly found themselves. “Good Bones” is a single 17-line stanza and explores themes of existence, the state of the world, and how to happily and peacefully live in a world mired in violence.

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   ‘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).

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   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.

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   “Good Bones” is a single 17-line stanza and explores themes of existence, the state of the world, and how to happily and peacefully live in a world mired in violence. Smith’s speaker is a mother struggling to keep the nastiness of the world from her children.

7. www.vanityfair.com › style › 2023Maggie Smith Reflects on “Good Bones,” Viral Fame, and Her ...

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   Apr 10, 2023 · IN CONVERSATION. “There’s an Inherent Danger in Processing Your Life Experience as Material”: Maggie Smith, Twitter’s Poet in Residence, Takes on the Fourth Wall. After “Good Bones” made...

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   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

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   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 ...