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Someone Else’s Wedding Vows

Someone Else’s Wedding Vows

"i read this line: “your penis lifted / like a crane lifting a piano to the top floor.” and i couldn’t put down this debut collection. that’s what bianca stone does best—takes the most mundane, the most invisible moments of someone’s life (including her own) and turns them on their head, into something beautiful."

Nathalie K.

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Author Bianca Stone
Publisher Tin House Books
Publication Date 2014-03-18
Section New Titles - Paperback / Poetry / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Nathalie B.
Type New
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781935639749

Someone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts the human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psychological, and even supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing towards the absurdity of our choices. They recede into the imaginative in order to understand and translate the distressing nature of reality. It is a bittersweet question this book raises: Why we are like this? There is no easy answer. So while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.

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