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Download⚡️(PDF)❤️ Good Bones: Poems

COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/1982132078 Maggie Smith&#8217s award-winning book of poetry about looking for goodness in the world features the viral poem &#8220Good Bones,&#8221 named the &#8220Official Poem of 2016&#8221 by Public Radio International.&ltBR&gt Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they&#8217ve just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. Smith takes in the dark world around her with a critical eye, always searching for the hidden goodness: compassion, empathy, honesty. &#8220There is a light,&#8221 she tells us, &#8220and the light is good.&#8221&ltBR&gt Smith skillfully reveals the layers of the world around us through lyric language and vivid imagery: &#8220For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. / For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, / sunk in a lake.&#8221 These poems stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility and addressing a larger world. We come away from this collection hopeful about making the world a better place, a place to share with future generations. As Smith tells us in Good

COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/1982132078

Maggie Smith&#8217s award-winning book of poetry about looking for goodness in the world features the viral poem &#8220Good Bones,&#8221 named the &#8220Official Poem of 2016&#8221 by Public Radio International.&ltBR&gt Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they&#8217ve just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. Smith takes in the dark world around her with a critical eye, always searching for the hidden goodness: compassion, empathy, honesty. &#8220There is a light,&#8221 she tells us, &#8220and the light is good.&#8221&ltBR&gt Smith skillfully reveals the layers of the world around us through lyric language and vivid imagery: &#8220For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. / For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, / sunk in a lake.&#8221 These poems stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility and addressing a larger world. We come away from this collection hopeful about making the world a better place, a place to share with future generations. As Smith tells us in Good

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