Goldenrod

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**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.