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{"id":7305171271783,"title":"Goldenrod","handle":"goldenrod","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning poet and bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKeep Moving, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGood Bones\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith her breakout bestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeep Moving\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). 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Now, with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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 \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eshana tova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eshaman tobacco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \/ Rosh Hashanah to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003erose has hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e128 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"}