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Good bones / Maggie Smith.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.M5918 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Maggie, 1977- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherhood--Poetry.
- Motherhood.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 99 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2017.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781946482013
- 1946482013
- OCLC:
- 993672871
- Publisher Number:
- 99979122468
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