Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change - Hardcover

Smith, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147215598X ISBN 13: 9781472155986

Publisher: Corsair, 2020

Synopsis

In the midst of uncertainty, the award-winning and much beloved poet Maggie Smith offers readers a moment of peace and reflection. Keep Moving is a helpful, hopeful book of thoughts, quotes and personal essays to cherish, learn from and pass along.

About this title

About the Author

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of several books of poetry including Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, The List of Dangers, and Nesting Dolls. 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, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and more.

From the Back Cover

'Candid, lyrical and full of empathy, this is a book that feels vital and welcome in these times - for those who are struggling, or anyone just seeking joy. A stunning and wise piece of work' Sinéad Gleeson

'Maggie Smith writes so honestly without being brutal and she shows readers hope while avoiding the saccharine. To experience relief from am book is rare and wonderful thing. Keep Moving gave me that relief' Bella Mackie

'I'm so grateful for the clarity, compassion, and wit in these pages. This is a book that will change you, a book you will want to give to someone you love. I've never read anything quite like it' Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, and widow of Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air

'Keep Moving offers a bouquet of generosities in one hand, and a bouquet of soft but firm honesty in the other.... A promise that what doesn't get better sometimes gets easier. And that, too, is worthy of celebration' Hanif Abdurraqib

'I read this book in one sitting during one of the most difficult weeks of my life . . . Every single page of this book made me breathe a little deeper and feel a little less alone' Amanda Palmer

From the Inside Flap

'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new' Glennon Doyle

Keep Moving is a beautifully designed collection of quotes and personal essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage and resilience

To help navigate her way through a difficult divorce, the poet Maggie Smith started sharing her daily 'notes to self' on social media and soon found that her thoughts resonated with people going through a host of life changes. In this deeply moving book of thoughts, quotes and essays, Maggie Smith 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?

Edition details

• Publisher: Corsair
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147215598X
• ISBN 13: 9781472155986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224