Good Bones: Poems

Featuring Good Bones, which has made a difference to so many people around the globe--called "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International. Maggie Smith 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. These poems stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility and addressing a larger world.

Poetry.

Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 10/02/2017
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781946482013


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/02/2017

About the Author
Smith, Maggie: - Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem Good Bones has gone viral-tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the Official Poem of 2016 by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year.