About the author:
\nMaggie Smith is the award-winning author of \;You Could Make This Place Beautiful\, \;Good Bones\, \;The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison\, \;Lamp of the Body\, an d the national bestsellers \;Goldenrod \;and \;Ke ep Moving: Notes on Loss\, Creativity\, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\ , Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Oh io Arts Council\, two Academy of American Poets Prizes\, a Pushcart Prize\ , and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Ce nter for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published\, appearing in&n bsp\;The New York Times\, \;The New Yorker\, \;< em>The Paris Review\, \;The Best American Poetry\, and m ore. \;
\nIn her memoir \;You Could Make This Pl ace Beautiful\, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegratio n of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignett es that shine\, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman&r squo\;s personal\, particular heartbreak\, but its circles widen into a re ckoning with contemporary womanhood\, traditional gender roles\, and the p ower dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she&rsquo\;s known for\, Smith interweaves sn apshots of a life with meditations on secrets\, anger\, forgiveness\, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page \, they build into a larger interrogation of family\, work\, and patriarch y.
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