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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Good Bones

Good Bones

Smith, Maggie

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1946482013
ISBN13: 9781946482013
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A powerful collection that includes the viral hit poem Good Bones -- Public Radio International's Official Poem of 2016!

Good Bones is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She 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. Smith takes in the dark world around her with a critical eye, always searching for the hidden goodness: compassion, empathy, honesty. There is a light, she tells us, and the light is good. Smith skillfully reveals the layers of the world around us through lyric language and vivid imagery: For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. / For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, / sunk in a lake. These poems stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility and addressing a larger world. We come away from this collection hopeful about making the world a better place, a place to share with future generations. As Smith tells us in Good Bones, This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

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