You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Hardcover Book

Description: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending and instant bestselling memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Life, like a poem, is a series of choices In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. With the spirit of reflection and empathy shes known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness and narrative itself. 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 award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep 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 Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in the New York Times, New Yorker, Paris Review, Best American Poetry and more.@MaggieSmithPoet | maggiesmithpoet.com Review This book is extraordinary - ANN PATCHETTRich in nuance and unrelenting in its honesty, Smiths memoir is a bittersweet study in both grief and joy - TIMEReminds you that you can [ . . . ] survive deep loss, sink into lifes deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new - GLENNON DOYLEA poets memoir . . . [Smith] has an uncanny ability to boil down giant ideas into tiny, dense sentences that are both playful and heartbreaking - SHONDALANDSmith turns to prose to chronicle the end of her marriage and the hard, beautiful work of loving and valuing herself - PEOPLE Details ISBN1805302426 Author Maggie Smith Pages 320 Publisher Canongate Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781805302421 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-09-07 Imprint Canongate Books Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-09-07 UK Release Date 2023-09-07 Edition Description Main Audience General Alternative 9781805302445 DEWEY 818.609 ISBN-10 1805302426 NZ Release Date 2023-11-27 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:144550454;

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