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Good Bones by Maggie Smith (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Authors : Maggie Smith. Good Bones: Poems. Title : Good Bones: Poems.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTupelo Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101946482013

ISBN-139781946482013

eBay Product ID (ePID)237445986

Product Key Features

Book TitleGood Bones

Number of Pages114 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Family

Publication Year2017

GenrePoetry

AuthorMaggie Smith

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-026607

Table Of ContentCONTENTS: Weep Up 3 First Fall 4 Marked 5 Sky 7 This Town 8 Twentieth Century 10 The Hawk 12 London Plane 14 Accidental Pastoral 16 Museum 18 The Story of the Mountain 20 Orientation 22 You could never take a car to Greenland, 23 ~ At your age I wore a darkness 27 Past 29 Heart 30 Stitches 31 The Crows 32 Let's Not Begin 33 Home-Free 36 Deer Field 38 Nest 39 Size Equals Distance 40 Harrowing 41 Lullaby 42 Where Honey Comes From 44 ~ Rough Air 49 Leaves 51 The Hunters 52 Parachute 54 If anyone can survive, 57 Storybook 58 Stonefish 60 Illustration 61 Invincible 63 Your Tongue 64 Splinter 66 The Mother 68 What I Carried 69 ~ Good Bones 75 Transparent 76 Clock 78 Future 80 Cloud Study 81 The Hawk-Kite 83 Reading the Train Book, I Think of Lisa 84 Panel Van 85 Poem with a Line from Bluets 87 Dear 88 Mountain Child 90 Love Poem 92 Rain, New Year's Eve 94 ~ Acknowledgments 97

Synopsis"As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light, ' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'" -- D. A. Powell "Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark. . . ." --Ada Lim n "It's Smith's dynamically precise and vivid images, and her uncanny ability to find just the right word or action to crack open our known experience, that make Good Bones an extraordinary book. (She) demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible." --Erin Belieu, Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, 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 nothing of the characters or plot. Smith takes in the dark world around her with a critical eye, always searching for the hidden goodness: compassion, empathy, honesty. "There is a light," she tells us, "and the light is good." Smith skillfully reveals the layers of the world around us through lyric language and vivid imagery: "For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. / For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, / sunk in a lake." These poems stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility and addressing a larger world. We come away from this collection hopeful about making the world a better place, a place to share with future generations. As Smith tells us in Good Bones, "This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful."

LC Classification NumberPS3619.M5918A6 2017