{"product_id":"goldenrod-poems-hardcover-1","title":"Goldenrod: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaggie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e?\"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003engly precious beauty of the present moment.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning poet and bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKeep Moving, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGood Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003e a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her breakout bestseller \u003ci\u003eKeep Moving\u003c\/i\u003e, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her \"meditations on kindness and hope\" (NPR). Now, with \u003ci\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \/ \u003ci\u003eshana tova\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eshaman tobacco\u003c\/i\u003e, \/ Rosh Hashanah to \u003ci\u003erose has hands\u003c\/i\u003e.\"​ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie Smith is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Well Speaks of Its Own Poison\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLamp of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and the national bestsellers \u003ci\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKeep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 7.38 x 5.78 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52728532205875,"sku":"9781982185060","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZHo1bXdNMy9DT2JOZ01lcTdSSS84dz09_c0b7f3fc-b7ba-4c71-826f-482d0fd3b1d6.webp?v=1763784110","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/goldenrod-poems-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}