Poetry
Opening Ceremony
- Publisher
- Metatron Press
- Published
- September 22, 2024
- Pages
- 64
- Price
- $18.00
- ISBN
- 9781988355603
- Language
- English
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The team behind the book
- Cover
- Carly Jean Andrews
I think of your nephew who said he had flowers in his yard, but they belonged to the landlord
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.
Description from the publisher Metatron Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
From Metatron Press
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Aqueous Mind Bath
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Wavering Futures Kawai Shen
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Lateral Sway Hannah Karpinski
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all the time Xiaoxuan Huang
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Continuum Ivanna Baranova
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The Snakes Came Back Lora Mathis
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The Choice Is Real Jayson Keery
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Little Fury Casey Bell
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Thirty Marie Darsigny
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Para-Social Butterfly Šari Dale
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New Infinity Bára Hladík
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the half-drowned Trynne Delaney
