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 Smiths new collection comes from the eponymous poem:

You ask what Ill miss about this life.
Everything but cruelty, I think.

But you want one specific thing,
so hereIll miss my body. Ill miss

its companionship, how its traveled
with me, never leaving me& by me,

I mean my mind. My soul? My self?
I dont know what to call it, and besides,

my body hasnt traveled with me.
Ive 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.