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- Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space.
- About the Author: Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, Dear Writer, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings.
- 128 Pages
- Poetry, Women Authors
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About the Book
"A poetry collection from the New York Times bestselling poet"-- Provided by publisher.Book Synopsis
Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space. The title of Maggie Smith's new collection comes from the eponymous poem: You ask what I'll miss about this life.Everything but cruelty, I think. But you want one specific thing,
so here--I'll miss my body. I'll miss its companionship, how it's traveled
with me, never leaving me--& by me, I mean my mind. My soul? My self?
I don't know what to call it, and besides, my body hasn't traveled with me.
I've traveled inside it. Do I wear it or does it carry me? Is the body a suit
or a suitcase? Within, poems turn over the strange relationships between the body and the mind, the self and the world. With her signature tenderness and clarity of observation, and with stunning swoops of imagination, Smith considers--and reconsiders--what it is to be human: Does one life matter in the grand scheme of space and time? How can it be that we are the same people we were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, but also different people? And could there be more to life, just beyond the borders of we can experience? Each poem is an ode to the power of our minds, and proof that both a life and a self, whether within a suit or a suitcase, is infinitely expandable.
Review Quotes
"A Suit or a Suitcase is a really confident, satisfying collection of poems. Not a word or idea is out of place. The title poem is a real standout."
--Roxane Gay "I love Maggie Smith's poems. She is immensely generous to all readers. She gives us her sometimes dark, often hilarious, always questioning, always familiar awareness of the strangeness of the everyday. She shares her insights, her pain, her humility, her intense love of people and the world. To read her poems is to become more aware, more sensitive, more loving, more present, more alive."
--Matthew Zapruder, author of I Love Hearing Your Dreams and Story of a Poem
About the Author
Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, Dear Writer, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.Dimensions (Overall): 7.0 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .35 Inches (D)
Weight: .48 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 128
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Maggie Smith
Language: English
Street Date: March 24, 2026
TCIN: 1004441772
UPC: 9781668090053
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-6699
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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