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Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Maggie Smith is the author of Goldenrod (Simon & Schuster, 2021), Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Simon & Schuster, 2020), Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks.
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).
Poems. Poem Analyzed by Jack Limebear. Degree in World Literature. ‘ 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’. This is something she knows but does not share with her ...
Close reading of Good Bones by the poet Sandra Beasley. 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 ...
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 ...
‘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). First published in 2016, the poem reflects on the negative aspects of life, such as its brevity, and how the speaker of the poem endeavours to shield these harsh ...
Oct 2, 2017 · Published October 2, 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. She writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they’ve just opened, knowing ...
