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GoldenrodMaggie Smith

Goldenrod

2021128 pages
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"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 /…

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3 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2021
    Atria/One Signal Publishers · 128 pages · 9781982185060
  • Audiobook · English · 2021
    Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781797130699
  • Other · English · 2021
    Atria Books · 128 pages · 9781982185077
American literatureAmerican poetryParenthoodPoetryMemory