num_pages: 128
description: From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of 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 lifea hallway mirror a rock found in her sons pocket a field of goldenrods at the side of the roadshe reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry musing that her phone doesnt observe / the high holidays autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands.
language: English
title: Goldenrod: Poems
publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers