Honoring the 60th Anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, Marilyn: Essays & Poems, Collector’s Edition includes the award-winning collection of poems, An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, plus a heart-breaking eulogy for Marilyn Monroe, along with essays and narrative that celebrate the poetry and spirit of the world’s most famous icon.

Described as a tour de force, Marilyn: Essays & Poems is a middle-of-the-night poetic conversation between two women who “live on the glittering edge,” a sequined mediation on what keeps us up at night and what fills our dreams.

Praise :

“An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe is a moving interrogation of our infatuation with celebrities and our performance culture.” —Ron Charles, Book Critic, The Washington Post

“For all of its intensity, this collection is as brilliantly composed as a Dior dress. I am in love and in awe.” —Diane Seuss, Author of Modern Poetry

“Heidi Seaborn’s An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe is a fever dream of deeply sensual and human detail. The collection is at once poetic and historic: a probing exploration into and extrapolation onto the life of Monroe…a work of art that is alive and different…This is a collection to learn from, to teach from.” —The Shore Poetry

“The book is a breathtaking tour de force. It is a fairy tale and a murder mystery, a parable and a mirror in which many women will see ourselves.” —Cultural Daily

“I too have lived on that glittering edge” Heidi Seaborn writes. Indeed. Seaborn’s voice is lively and urbane; vivid pains and pleasures abound on every page of this lush, glitteringly alive new book of poems.” —Deborah Landau, Author of Skeleton

“Heidi Seaborn's An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe is a lively and novel meditation on fame, addiction, loneliness, and the performance of femininity, where breasts are called ‘precious tickets to a carnival,’ where ‘charm becomes armor‘." —Catherine Barnett, Author of Solutions to the Problem of Bodies in Space

"Heidi Seaborn has crafted a moonlit book in conversation with Marilyn Monroe. Without promising insight, she delivers something more: a freshly captured glimpse of the worlds Marilyn haunts still." —John Freeman, Editor of Freeman’s

“I will be thinking of Seaborn’s Marilyn at night for some time to come.” —Tiffany Troy for Tupelo Quarterly