![]() ![]() Life Kit How Poet Maggie Smith 'Tried On' Hope To Keep Moving ForwardĪnd there are many such lessons to be found both good and bad. The things out of our control stay out of our control, and the world shows us only what it wants us to see. When an airplane flies past the window, where does it go? From here, it appears to only travel from one tree to another. When a window rattles, is it the rose bush rustling against the glass? We dig up the rose bush, but every year it grows back "thick and wild". ![]() One of the book's first poems, "In the Grand Scheme of Things," simply considers what we can see - or what we think we can see. ![]() In her new collection Goldenrod, Pushcart-Prize winning poet Maggie Smith responds to this destabilization by turning inward and asking - is the universal truth what we think it is? ![]() And for more than a year now, the distress of social distancing, lockdown, and a rapidly mutating virus has overshadowed our public lives. Knowing that there's a way out, a way through can help us make sense of the world when it seems completely out of our control. In times of distress, many of us tend to search for a universal truth. ![]()
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