Good Bones…book review
roller coaster ride…
Book review:
Good Bones
by Maggie Smith
North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2017
99 pages
Maggie Smith knows this: “You could make this place beautiful.”
She has beautiful words, beautiful phrases, even beautiful titles in her book of poems: Good Bones.
She doesn’t make best use or best order of her words and phrases. A reader is undeniably invited to consider “sky,” but the adventure begins with colossal sky and ends with a tunnel, and the sky becomes…a soft suit. This is more roller coaster than it is poem.
Good Bones is a slow-moving roller coaster that approximately takes you nowhere.
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