You-Could-Make-This-Place-Beautiful-A-Memoir

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
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&#8220[Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss, sink
into life&#8217s deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make
yourself new.&#8221 &#8212Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times

bestselling author Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Good
Housekeeping, Goodreads, Zibby Mag, Newsweek, BookPage, and
LitHub The bestselling poet and author of the
&#8220powerful&#8221 (People) and &#8220luminous&#8221
(Newsweek) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir
exploring coming of age in your middle age.&#8220Life, like a
poem, is a series of choices.&#8221 In her memoir You Could Make
This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration
of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical
vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with
one woman&#8217s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles
widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional
gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many
progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy
she&#8217s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with
meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The
power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into
a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy. You Could
Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel
Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to
live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother&#8217s
fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman&#8217s love
and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is an argument for
possibility. With a poet&#8217s attention to language and an
innovative approach to the genre, Smith reveals how, in the
aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something
new. Something beautiful.