Good Bones

A powerful collection that includes the viral hit poem "Good Bones" — Public Radio International's Official Poem of 2016!

Good Bones is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they’ve just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. Smith takes in the dark...