![]() ![]() Though she does not focus on the modern fairytale or the reinvented myth in Good Bones, she maintains a note of the unlikely, the inner fears of human experience, the supernatural tugging of everyday life, and a glimpse into worlds that are not our own, but neither are they fully removed. ![]() ![]() Smith’s entire book reads with a serious, mystical tone, reminiscent of her last collection, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison. She provides brief glimpses into the everyday life of a mother, showing the successful moments alongside the unsuccessful, allowing readers to connect easily and quickly. In her new poetry compilation Good Bones, named aptly after Smith’s 2016 single poem which Public Radio International called “the official poem of 2016,” Maggie Smith explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is constantly changing. She learns it, she masters it, and she manipulates it. ![]()
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