Circadian - Softcover

Clammer, Chelsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597096032 ISBN 13: 9781597096034

Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2017

Synopsis

Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, Circadian is a collection of essays that weaves together personal account with cultural narrative, only to unravel them and explore the brilliant and destructive cycles of who we are. Using poetic language and lyric structures, Clammer dives into her stories of trauma, mental illnesses, and a wide spectrum of relationships in order to understand experience through different of frameworks of thought. Whether it’s turning to mathematics to try to solve the problem of an alcoholic father, the history of naming to look at sexism, weather to re-consider trauma, or even grammar as a way to question identity, these “facts” move beyond metaphor, and become new ways to narrate our cyclical ways of being.

About this title

From the Author:

A lyric, cyclical and inventive form of narrative, Circadian explores the intersection of objectivity and the poetics of our bodies.

Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award

About the Author:

Chelsey Clammer is the author of BodyHome. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Essay Daily, McSweeney’s, The Water-Stone Review and Black Warrior Review, among many others. She is the Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown, a reader for Creative Nonfiction magazine, Editorial Coordinator of World of DQ, and Founding Editor of Inside/Out Editing Services. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop and an MA in Women’s Studies from Loyola University Chicago. She lives in Austin, TX.

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1597096032
• ISBN 13: 9781597096034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176