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Oct 6, 2020 · 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 ...
Oct 1, 2017 · Maggie Smith. 16 books1,584 followers. Follow. Follow. Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020); Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn; and Lamp ...
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 ...
Become a Member for exclusive perks and videos: https://bit.ly/ButtonMemberMaggie Smith's submission "Good Bones" from Motion Poems.Want to choose which vide...
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find it in: Lamp of the Body. Originally appeared in. Read poem. Not the dame, the other one. A thousand questions in a trench coat. Poet, writer, editor, and teacher. Author of "Good Bones" and the latest, "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."
Apr 4, 2021 · 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.
Maggie Smith's gorgeous poem called "Good Bones" will stop you in your tracks, as we try to sell our kids on the beauty and terror of this world. Listen to m...
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