Chelsey Clammer Bücher

Human Heartbeat Detected is a collection of lyric, flash, and personal essays that looks at how we are human to one another-both exceptionally and horrifically.

Exploring the concept of home as a state of mind, Chelsey Clammer's debut essay collection delves into the intimate relationship between the body and the world. Through a blend of lyricism and wit, she candidly addresses her experiences with assault, addiction, mental illness, and sexuality. The essays navigate a spectrum of emotions, from humor to chilling revelations, offering powerful prose that encourages readers to reconnect with their own bodies and sense of belonging.

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.