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Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Marciano, Laura Marie

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ISBN10: 1988355605
ISBN13: 9781988355603
Publisher: Metatron Press
Published: Sep 20 2024
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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