![]() ![]() There is more to the story, of course - you can read some of it in an adapted excerpt in The Cut - but Smith sets expectations from the beginning: This is not going to be a tell-all divorce memoir. "There's no such thing as a tell-all, only a tell-some - a tell-most, maybe," she writes. Smith dives deeper into that personal journey in her new memoir, " You Could Make This Place Beautiful" - the title references the last line of "Good Bones" - in which she writes, "my marriage was never the same after that poem." The exposure - rare for a living poet, let alone one who was only just approaching mid-career - sparked waves of media attention and unlocked professional opportunities like speaking and teaching engagements. Smith went from "a stay-at home (or, rather, work-from-home) mom who traveled occasionally" to an in-demand literary star, following her third collection of poems (also titled " Good Bones") with " Keep Moving," a collection of essays and quotes on rebuilding a life and dealing with grief after divorce. ![]() Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" became a viral sensation when it was published in 2016 the same week as the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando. ![]()
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