Today our team members are sharing three recommended reads by Chloe N. Clark, Sylvia Plath and Carmen Maria Machado. We hope you find something you’ll love!
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Escaping the Body poems by Chloe N.Clark
Chloe N. Clark’s poetry collection takes readers through a catalog of the speculative body. Escaping the Body is a surreal and profound journey through space, forests, monsters, myths, spells, magic tricks, forests, and the body. Escaping the Body is a collection of dreams of the flesh, exploring the cosmic rifts between the soul and the body, encouraging readers to escape their body in search of the liminal space beyond skin and bones.
Cassie’s Teaser Review
This is my first read by the author, but I’m excited to look into more – I really liked it! It’s a darker poetry collection, which is my favorite. I love the emotions in here, the words perfectly conveying everything from hurt to anger to apathy.
Read Cassie’s entire review at Goodreads.
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
Never before published, this newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life.
Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.
Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt” these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.
“But what is the ninth kingdom?” she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. “It is the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.”
Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.
Audra’s Teaser Review
It’s pretty amazing to think that Plath originally wrote this story when she was just 20—it shows her raw talent and and pure storytelling power. I wish we could have gotten more fiction work from her.
Read Audra’s entire review at Goodreads.
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship. In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Machado tackles a dark and difficult subject with wit, inventiveness and an inquiring spirit, as she uses a series of narrative tropes—including classic horror themes—to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic.
Alex’s Teaser Review
ALL. THE. STARS. Wow! Carmen Maria Machado bares all in this memoir, IN THE DREAM HOUSE. It is smart. It is clever. It is raw. It is brilliant! Exploring queer domestic abuse on the most personal level, Machado shares her painful experiences with us but does so in such a way that can leave readers empowered and setup to be, quite simply said, better people.
Read Alex’s entire review at Goodreads.
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