The Science of Last Things - Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the SelfIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland Smith probes the raw edges of human existence, those periods of life in which our bodies remind us of our transience and the boundaries of the self dissolve. From the Old Testament to Maggie Nelson, these explorations are grounded in a rich network of associations. In an essay on the postpartum body, Wayland Smith interweaves her experience as a mother with accounts of phantom limbs and Greek