<p>A powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life - a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son''s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road - Maggie Smith reveals the magic of the present moment.<br><br>The poems in <i>Goldenrod </i>celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.</p>