Maggie Smith The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison

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Delving into the depths of fairy tales to transform the daily into encounters with the marvelous but dangerous, Maggie Smith’s poems question whether the realms of imaginationcan possibly be safe. How do we protect our children from the brutality of the world they live in—the world we brought them into—without also keeping them from the dark forest’s wonder and beauty? Even as her compressed stories are unfolding on a suburban cul de sac, they are deep in the mythical woods, “where children, despite their commonness, / are a delicacy.”...

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