NATIONAL BESTSELLER *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR

To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment. Time
A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet. People

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author ofYou Could Make This Place Beautiful,Keep Moving,andGood Bones,a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.

With her breakout bestsellerKeep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her meditations on kindness and hope (NPR). Now, withGoldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday lifea hallway mirror, a rock found in her sons pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the roadshe reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone doesnt observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting /shana tovatoshaman tobacco, / Rosh Hashanah torose has hands.

Slatecalled Smiths 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 inGoldenrodcelebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.