{"product_id":"a-suit-or-a-suitcase-poems-by-maggie-smith","title":"A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems by Maggie Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title of Maggie Smith’s new collection comes from the eponymous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou ask what I’ll miss about this life.\u003cbr\u003eEverything but cruelty, I think.\u003cbr\u003eBut you want one specific thing,\u003cbr\u003eso here—I’ll miss my body. I’ll miss\u003cbr\u003eits companionship, how it’s traveled\u003cbr\u003ewith me, never leaving me—\u0026amp; by me,\u003cbr\u003eI mean my mind.\u003cbr\u003emy body hasn’t traveled with me.\u003cbr\u003eI’ve traveled inside it.\u003cbr\u003eDo I wear it, or does it carry me?\u003cbr\u003eIs the body a suit, or a suitcase?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWithin, 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookmarked","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51207375126813,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0801\/2637\/8269\/files\/suit.jpg?v=1777054750","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkedpaperie.com\/products\/a-suit-or-a-suitcase-poems-by-maggie-smith","provider":"Bookmarked ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}