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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.

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.
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.
Über den Autor
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 [...]
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781668090053
ISBN-10: 1668090058
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Smith, Maggie
Hersteller: Washington Square Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 182 x 141 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Maggie Smith
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2026
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 136907890

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