![]() ![]() Much like Smith’s poetry, which is often intimate and sparse, the tweets astutely blend compression with meaning, making each word count far beyond its letters.īeautifully designed into full-color, textual graphics by Oliver Munday, these pieces chronicle Smith’s struggle to grieve, to mourn, and to stay creative and keep moving in the face of personal obstacles. Their language is direct, insightful, and sharp, and they create an optimistic, positive, and inspiring spirit in the reader. ![]() These pieces, which make up roughly half of Keep Moving, are like poems with purpose. Muscle your way forward.” In Keep Moving, her first nonfiction offering, Smith is at work closing the door to her past, working her way forward from the calamity of her divorce, following which she did what perhaps only a poet would do: took to Twitter to offer herself a daily public pep talk in the form of three sentences or less. Stop wasting your strength, because you can’t go back. “Stop straining to hold the door to the past open, as if your old life is there, waiting, and you could just clip right in. ![]()
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