Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

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Synopsis: &“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.&” —Time 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 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.