# Goldenrod: Poems - Hardcover

by **Maggie Smith** (Author)

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

**?****?"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achi****ngly 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.

### Author Biography

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of _You Could Make This Place Beautiful_, _Good Bones_, _The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison_, _Lamp of the Body_, and the national bestsellers _Goldenrod_ and _Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change_. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in _The New York Times_, _The New Yorker_, _The Paris Review_, _The Best American Poetry_, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

**Number of Pages:** 128

**Dimensions:** 0.64 x 7.38 x 5.78 IN

**Publication Date:** July 27, 2021

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