"With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life--a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son's pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road--she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone "doesn't observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco, / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands" -- Amazon.

1 --This Sort of Thing Happens All the Time -- Goldenrod -- Animals -- The Hum -- In the Grand Scheme of Things -- Ohio Cento -- Lacrimae -- Poem Beginning with a Retweet -- Walking the Dog -- Starlings -- Written Deer -- Rose Has Hands -- At the End of Our Marriage, in the Backyard -- If I could set this to music -- Talk of Horses -- Inventive Spelling -- Stone -- Threshold -- 2 -- Slipper -- For My Next Trick -- December 18, 2008 -- Small Blue Town -- Ohio Cento -- Airplanes -- Tender Age -- Prove -- Poor Sheep -- Half Staff -- Perennials -- Interrogators of Orchids -- At the End of My Marriage, I Think of Something My Daughter Said About Trees -- Not everything is a poem -- Confession -- Small Shoes -- Planetarium in January -- After the Divorce, I Think of Something My Daughter Said About Mars -- Poem Beginning with a Line from Basho -- 3 -- Invisible Architecture -- Wild -- Junk trees -- First Thaw -- A Room Like This -- Ohio Cento -- Woman, 41, with a History of Alzheimer's on Both Sides of Her Family -- What Else -- Porthole -- Joke -- Homesick on a Farm in Franklin, Tennessee -- During Lockdown, I Let the Dog Sleep in My Bed Again -- Wife for Scale -- Bride -- Talisman -- How Dark the Beginning -- Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge.