Good bones

Smith, Maggie 1977- (author.).

Summary:

"Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children trying to read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781946482013
ISBN: 1946482013
Physical Description: 99 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Weep up -- First fall -- Marked -- Sky -- This town -- Twentieth century -- The hawk -- London plane -- Accidental pastoral -- Museum -- The story of the mountain -- Orientation -- You could never take a car to Greenland, -- At your age I wore a darkness -- Past -- Heart -- Stitches -- The crows -- Let's not begin -- Home-free -- Deer field -- Nest -- Size equals distance -- Harrowing -- Lullaby -- Where honey comes from -- Rough air -- Leaves -- The hunters -- Parachute -- If anyone can survive, -- Storybook -- Stonefish -- Illustration -- Invincible -- Your tongue -- Splinter -- The mother -- What I carried -- Good bones -- Transparent -- Clock -- Future -- Cloud study -- The hawk-kite -- Reading the train book, I think of Lisa -- Panel van -- Poem with a line from Bluets -- Dear -- Mountain child -- Love poem -- Rain, New Year's Eve -- Acknowledgments.