Someone Else's Wedding Vows

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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 a 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 lov.;Table of Contents; Section One; A Bewilderment; The Future Is Here; I saw the Devil with His Needlework; Even Moon; Sensitivity to Sound; Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK; Elegy with Judy Garland & Refrigerator; Because You Love You Come Apart; Section Two; What It's Like; You Were Lost in the Delta Quadrant; The People of Distress; Outpost; My Herd; Someone Else's Wedding Vows; Section Three; Monsieur; Driving Our New Car; The Harvest; Dishes; Someone Will Have to Tell You; Elegy with a Darkenss in My Palms; Letter; The Other Forms; Practicing Vigilance; Thank You.