In 'Goldenrod,' A Poet Finds Lessons In The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected
Maggie Smith's new poetry collection considers the human tendency to search for universal truths — but she looks for those truths in things we can see every day, as ordinary as rosebushes and rocks.
In times of distress, many of us tend to search for a universal truth. Knowing that there's a way out, a way through can help us make sense of the world when it seems completely out of our control. And for more than a year now, the distress of social distancing, lockdown, and a rapidly mutating virus has overshadowed our public lives. In her new collection , Pushcart-Prize winning poet responds to this destabilization by turning inward and asking — is the universal truth what we think
