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You could make this place beautiful : a memoir  Cover Image Book Book

You could make this place beautiful : a memoir / Maggie Smith.

Summary:

The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982185855 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 313 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2023.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Smith, Maggie, 1977-
Divorced women > United States > Biography.
Poets, American > 21st century > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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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, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.


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