Description: Featuring "Good Bones," called "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International
Brief description: Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem "Good Bones" has gone viral-tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the "Official Poem of 2016" by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year.
Review Quotes: "I think if the book called Good Bones has a moral, it's about learning to grow where planted. It's also about learning how to look danger in the eye, how to acknowledge the thing that wants to stop us--uproot us, undo us--and then refusing to let it." -- "Julie Marie Wade, The Rumpus"