NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR ? ?"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achi ngly precious beauty of the present moment." -- Time "A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." -- People From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful , Keep Moving, and Good Bones , a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life. With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving , Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod , the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life--a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son's pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road--she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone "doesn't observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco , / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands ." Slate called Smith's "superpower as a writer" her "ability to find the perfect concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with empathy and honesty.

" The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.