Opening Ceremony - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Metatron PressISBN-13:9781988355603ISBN-10:1988355605UPC:9781988355603Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, American, JewishSize:7.90 x 7.30 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SCSWHNQR40
Opening Ceremony is the second collection of poetry from author Laura Marie Marciano. The book follows the speaker of her first book Mall Brat from the 2008 recession to the current hellscape of downward mobility for many aging millennials. Finding absurdity in the Fourth of July, backyard pools, surveillance mirrors, and Sol De Janeiro, the poems navigate the pain and promise of letting go of expectations as one seeks motherhood. Wet landscapes, missed fertile windows, Botox routines, quiet quitting rituals, political centrists, and text message banter are navigated by the author's perfect balance of tenderness, pastiche, camp, and wit. Ultimately, the poems in this book reveal the glimmer that still exists in leaning from a collective state of drowning, into the birth of a child, breaking open our hearts to a soft landing and a queer future.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Metatron PressISBN-13:9781988355603ISBN-10:1988355605UPC:9781988355603Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, American, JewishSize:7.90 x 7.30 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SCSWHNQR40
Laura Marie Marciano is an author, educator, and media artist. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Rhode Island. Laura's first book of poetry, Mall Brat, was released in 2016, from Civil Coping Mechanism Press. She has curated works of poetry and performance at MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum, and RISD Museum, and has given readings at many venues across the nation.
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