Jan 18, 2021
When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem
"Good Bones", started writing daily Twitter posts in the wake of
her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. Now, in her new book
"Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change" she's
writing about new beginnings as opportunities for
transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending
broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and
strength on the other side of loss. There is perhaps no better book
for our times.
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About Maggie
Maggie Smith is the author of three books of
poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press,
2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (2015); and
Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005). Her latest book,
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One
Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020) is a national bestseller. Smith’s
poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing
in Best American Poetry, the New York
Times, The New Yorker, Tin House,
POETRY, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and
elsewhere. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral
internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen
languages. Public Radio International called it “the official poem of
2016.”
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Praise for Keep
Moving
Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging
friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink
into life’s deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself
new. Who doesn’t need a friend—and a book—like
that?” —Glennon Doyle
“Every once in a long, long while a book comes along that
challenges and changes everything. Keep
Moving is exactly that book: an ingenious synthesis of
poetry, proverbs, journaling, lyrical
prose, belles-lettres, psalms, meditations, and
aphorisms. It defies any tidy definition, and thus, practically
defines a new genre that gives everyone—no matter what walk of
life—the gift of pausing to reflect on what we didn’t know we
already knew about ourselves because we never had words for it,
until Maggie Smith. These pages give us a unique and poetic
opportunity to recognize the joys within our failures, the peace
within our terrors, the simplicity within our complex lives—and
then some! It is sure to become a classic that will be read for
decades to come.” —Richard Blanco
“In Keep Moving, poet Maggie Smith takes what
William James called a ‘torn-to-pieces-hood’ and knits it into
something new and surprising and fortifying. I’m so grateful for
the clarity, compassion, and wit in these pages. This is a book
that will change you, a book you will want to give to someone you
love. I’ve never read anything quite like it.” —Lucy
Kalanithi
Praise for Good
Bones
“Smith’s voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the
universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble
around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful,
tender, and unafraid of the dark, the poems in Good
Bones are lyrically charged love letters to a world in
desperate need of her generous eye.” —Ada
Limón
“In her wondrous new poetry collection, Good Bones,
Maggie Smith has much to tell us. And she does so with such a
clean, aching clarity of lyricism that I discover now frequently
exhausted human touchstones freshly, with real surprise. It’s
Smith’s dynamically precise and vivid images, and her uncanny
ability to find just the right word or action to crack open our
known experience, that make Good Bones an
extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an
abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master
craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet,
is blessedly inexhaustible.” —Erin Belieu
