Description: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age - an instant New York Times bestseller FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In her long-awaited debut memoir, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. It is a story about a mothers fierce and constant love for her children, and a womans love and regard for herself.Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Something beautiful. Author Biography Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison and Keep Moving. Her newest book is My Thoughts Have Wings, her debut picture book for children, illustrated by Leanne Hatch. Smiths poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Paris Review, TIME, Nation, Atlantic and Best American Poetry.@MaggieSmithPoet | maggiesmithpoet.com Review This book is extraordinary - ANN PATCHETTI am in awe of Maggie Smiths memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, for what she is willing to show us. Yes, the writing is keen and gorgeous, and yes, she tells us a hundred truths in every chapter, but most of all she allows us to witness a self crumbling, scattering and renewing . . . [A] generous, beautiful book - KATHERINE MAYThis is a memoir of a woman who recommits to herself after heartbreak, but its also a meditation on patriarchal power dynamics, a mothers love for her children and what that means in todays world and how to bet on yourself, even and especially when were told not to. A balm for the soul and a rallying cry for the heart - Good HousekeepingA composite of creativity, motherhood and determination - New York TimesRich in nuance and unrelenting in its honesty, Smiths memoir is a bittersweet study in both grief and joy - TIME - Details ISBN1805302450 Author Maggie Smith Pages 320 Publisher Canongate Books Edition Description Main Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781805302452 Format Paperback Imprint Canongate Books Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781805302421 DEWEY 818.609 Audience General Publication Date 2024-06-06 UK Release Date 2024-06-06 NZ Release Date 2024-08-26 ISBN-10 1805302450 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168830408;
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