Goldenrod, Maggie Smith
Goldenrod, Maggie Smith
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Goldenrod
Poems

Author: Maggie Smith

Narrator: Maggie Smith

Unabridged: 1 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/27/2021


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR

“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.” —Time
“A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —People

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving, and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.

With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life—a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son’s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road—she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone “doesn’t observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco, / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands.”​

Slate called Smith’s “superpower as a writer” her “ability to find the perfect concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with empathy and honesty.” The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.

About Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, Dear WriterYou Could Make This Place BeautifulGood BonesGoldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New YorkerThe Paris ReviewThe Nation, The New York TimesThe AtlanticThe Best American Poetry, and more. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane

A solid collection. There is a real subtlety in many of the poems that elevated the work.......more

‘What is home,’ Maggie Smith writes, ‘but a passage I’m writing & underlining every time I read it.’ The proximity of home to poetry is deeply felt, particularly as it is so easy to find yourself at home within the emotions blossoming from each page. Goldenrod, Smith’s new collection following her v......more

"What is home but a book we write, then read again & again, each time dog-earing different pages." I absolutely loved this collection of little poems! "How do we live with trust.. In a world that will continue to betray us?"......more

Goodreads review by Elena

i think it should be illegal to mention a "retweet" in a book......more