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I Now Pronounce You by Caroline Earleywine
I Now Pronounce You by Caroline Earleywine
Caroline Earleywine's I Now Pronounce You interrogates the traditional roles of yesterday and molds them into something new for today.
What does it mean to be a good daughter, or a good wife? What does it look like to step outside the way these roles have been prescribed to us? Earleywine takes us on the journey of a daughter processing her parents’ divorce, an Arkansas public school teacher coming to terms with her queerness, and a wife navigating the work of love. Freeing herself from shame and silence, Earley's voice is both sharp and pungent, real and inviting.
I Now Pronounce You gives us permission to throw out the script of our lives and start a new page.
My silence is one hundred stories
tall. My silence took
the stairs, isn’t even winded.
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Caroline Earleywine is a poet, educator, and a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She was a 2021 finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and has work in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Barrelhouse, NAILED Magazine, and elsewhere. I Now Pronounce You is her first full-length collection.
