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Title	:	The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison
Author	:	Maggie Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 80 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2015 by Tupelo Press
Categories	:	Poetry. Fantasy. Fairy Tales

The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison

Maggie Smith

Paperback | Pages: 80 pages

Rating: 4.44 | 180 Users | 40 Reviews

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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 imagination and story can possibly be safe. 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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The reader warms to this book like a body in a tepid bath to which hotter water is added little by little, until slowly and without realizing it, steam rises all around and all you want to do is sink deeper into the cascade and melt of the words, bubbling and languorous, eerie, foggy, Big Bad Wolf-y, a dark, rich, immersive forest-tub of poetry from which you never want to emerge.

It seems like most people loved this a lot more than I did. I liked the variety of structure and form she used, and its definitely haunting, creepy, and at some time uncomfortable. (I'm seriously disturbed by the Hansel and Gretel poem. That was my favorite fairy tale and she kind of ruined it for me...but I suppose that just shows how powerful this collection is). But, as a whole, it wasn't quite hitting the mark from me. But again, I'm not a big poetry fan (though I'm trying to learn) so I

I have followed Maggie Smith on twitter for at least a year and I have read her most recent collection Good Bones, which is very nature based. The Well, although it includes nature and nature imagery & symbolism, is much darker. The collection is a twist, a reimagining of the fable/fairy tale genre, but the Grimm Brothers tales and not the Disney ones. The poems are very accessible and would be interesting to really analyze in terms of the fable/fairy tale genre. Im just having a difficult

Smith's poems are totemic, gorgeous, and haunting. This is a collection of poems you'll return to again and again.

These poems draw from the dark waters of fairy and folk tales to produce a quiet-but-startling lyric intensity that held me from the first page. Smith's poems capture the darkness of childhood worlds, real and imagined--from the Grimms' Black Forest to the "dial tone" songs of Ohio--in ways that keep turning and surprising the reader, in spite of the hauntingly familiar mythic forces that underlie each line. The images are rich and resonant, and the reader's ear is always rewarded. A stunning

Natural. Dark. Haunting. As if all the generations beneath our feet seeped up through the soil to weave into the unseen spaces between us all.

An absolutely stunning journey through the forest of fairy tales Maggie Smith has weaved together. Truly one of the best poetry collections that exists or will ever exist.