Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe: New and Revised

An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe is a middle-of-the-night poetic conversation with Marilyn Monroe that explores obsessions, addictions, abuse, objectification, marriage, work, children, childlessness and death. Seaborn illuminates the biographical and emotional journey of Marilyn as intimacies whispered between two women. Her Marilyn is a resilient, intelligent feminist who understands how to accumulate and wield power in the 1950s. She is also vulnerable, exploited, and broken in so many ways. We see the speaker discover Marilyn until "then she is everywhere," a haunting presence that becomes both muse and reflection. Seaborn invites us into the poetic soul of the world's most famous woman with poems that celebrate and mourn, her collection a sequined meditation on what keeps us up at night and what fills our dreams.