Maggie Smith

A Suit or a Suitcase (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 hereI'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 considersand reconsiderswhat 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781668090060
• Artikelnr.: 74372672

Autorenporträt

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. 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. She is the host of The Slowdown. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.