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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). 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 · Named one of the Five Best Poetry Collections of 2017 by The Washington Post. 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.
Oct 6, 2020 · Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” earned her fame as a viral poet. Can her new book turn her into a guru of literary self-help? By Dan Kois. Oct 06, 20203:50 PM. Maggie Smith. The night...
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 - Life is short, though I keep this from my children. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
Oct 1, 2017 · Good Bones. Maggie Smith. 4.27. 2,299 ratings303 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.
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.
