![]() ![]() Even the book’s interior design has more in common with a fancy greeting card than with a traditional book, poetry or prose. ![]() All that tells you is what you were worth to someone else-not what you are worth.” Whether or not we are the authors of ourselves in any real sense, the metaphor is a powerful one that encourages the agency it takes to positively reframe pain and disappointment as opportunities for growth. ![]() Allow yourself to be revised.” She continues later, “revise the story you tell yourself about rejection. Drawing on her experience as a writer, Smith views the self through the metaphor of a composition, one the “author” must constantly tend to: “Accept that you are a work in progress, both a revision and a draft: you are better and more complete than earlier versions of yourself, but you also have work to do. Combined with original short essays, those tweets demonstrate that social media can be a source of wisdom, as the author allows her own story of grief and transformation to inspire. ![]() Words of encouragement from an award-winning poet.Ī couple years ago, following the end of her marriage, Smith, the author of Good Bones (2017) and other poetry collections, took to Twitter to share a daily affirmation, imploring herself and her readers to #keepmoving. ![]()
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