Keep moving : notes on loss, creativity, and change

Title:

Author:

Smith, Maggie, 1977- author.

Summary:

When poet Smith started writing daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. Here she writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, she celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next? -- Adapted from Goodreads info.

Edition:

First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Contents:

Revision. The long book ; Beauty emergency -- Resilience. After the fire ; The golden repair -- Transformation. The blue rushes in ; Nesters.

Physical Description:

214 pages ; 19 cm

Genre:

Quotations.

Self-help publications.

Subject Term:

Resilience (Personality trait) -- Quotations.

Creative ability -- Quotations.

Courage -- Quotations.

Publisher:

One Signal Publishers/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,

Publication Date:

2020

ISBN:

9781982132071

Publication Information:

New York, NY : One Signal Publishers/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.

Call Number:

155.2 SMITH

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

"A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief." --NPR
"A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side." -- The Boston Globe
"Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal." -- People

For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience.

When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem "Good Bones," started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi , the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?

Author Notes

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.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Poet Smith (Good Bones) reflects on loss, beauty, and transformation in a thoughtful but not entirely satisfying collection. The slight volume compiles inspirational tweets--all concluding with the admonition to "keep moving"--that Smith began writing in the wake of a divorce. The messages are loosely organized into three parts ("Revision," "Resilience," and "Transformation") and interspersed with short personal essays. When read individually, the bite-size sentiments succeed as wise and compassionate pieces of encouragement. But bound together in book format, they blur together and fail to leave much of an impression. The bland, minimalist design doesn't do the work any favors, either. Meanwhile, the essays, which carry on the same themes, but add details of Smith's own experiences, are uneven. While some rely on tired metaphors of transformation (fire, chrysalises), others have striking and memorable imagery that showcases Smith's eye as a poet: "like when you pull your hand out of a bucket of water, and the water takes back the space." Smith's reflections on her struggles with miscarriage and postpartum depression are especially affecting. Readers will wish her obvious talents had been used in a way that does them justice. (May)