A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems by Maggie Smith out on March 24, 2026.
A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

Author: Maggie Smith

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Release date: March 24, 2026

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A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems Release Date: March 24, 2026
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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

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 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 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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Genre: Poetry

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