"These poems help me live. A Suit or a Suitcase explore intricate metaphysical subjects, the nature and interrelationships between the body, the mind, the soul, the self, mortality, and time, with a broad, companionable generosity. Her questions shed sparks, yet her lines, her images, are purposeful; they aspire to clarify rather than obfuscate. These poems share the fruits of a difficult aloneness, and the work of a polished mind and an endlessly revised self that has learned to endure mystery, even while lugging around 'the whole shebang' of her life, even while staying home, staying put. Smith’s is a poetry of grace."
—Diane Seuss, Pulitzer Prize winning author of frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry

"A Suit or a Suitcase is a really confident, satisfying collection of poems. Not a word or idea is out of place. The title poem is a real standout."
—Roxane Gay

"I love Maggie Smith’s poems. She is immensely generous to all readers. She gives us her sometimes dark, often hilarious, always questioning, always familiar awareness of the strangeness of the everyday. She shares her insights, her pain, her humility, her intense love of people and the world. To read her poems is to become more aware, more sensitive, more loving, more present, more alive."
—Matthew Zapruder, author of I Love Hearing Your Dreams and Story of a Poem