Maggie Smith Good Bones

Maggie Smith Good Bones. First published in 2016, the poem artfully reflects on life's darker aspects, such as its brevity and inherent difficulties, and portrays a speaker striving to shield her young children from these harsh truths. Resharing exactly as posted before, but edited to link to Maggie's book Good Bones


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'Good Bones' by Maggie Smith explores the idea that the world is not necessarily a morally good place Good Bones stands as one of the most well-known poems by contemporary American poet Maggie Smith (b

This is something she knows but does not share with her children, not wanting to dampen their expectations of how life will. First published in 2016, the poem artfully reflects on life's darker aspects, such as its brevity and inherent difficulties, and portrays a speaker striving to shield her young children from these harsh truths. Resharing exactly as posted before, but edited to link to Maggie's book Good Bones

. 'Good Bones' by Maggie Smith explores the idea that the world is not necessarily a morally good place about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful

‘Good Bones’ poet Maggie Smith talks about her new collection, ‘Goldenrod’ Orange County Register. This poem appeared in Good Bones by Maggie Smith, published by Tupelo Press, 2017 Good Bones - Life is short, though I keep this from my children.