Human Heartbeat Detected

Name: Human Heartbeat Detected
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781636280554
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By Chelsey Clammer

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Summary

Human Heartbeat Detected is a compelling collection of essays by Chelsey Clammer that explores the dual nature of humanity—its beauty and terror. Addressing themes such as trauma, emotional abuse, marriage, mental illness, and grief, the essays reveal how, despite pain and suffering, our hearts keep beating and we navigate the wreckage of life to survive. Clammer employs exquisite language and captivating storytelling to probe what it means to be human.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Human Heartbeat Detected is suited for readers who appreciate lyrical, introspective essays that confront difficult emotional realities with honesty and artistry, particularly those interested in themes of human resilience and personal struggle.

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.

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Human Heartbeat Detected is a collection of essays that explores how we are wonderfully and terrifyingly human.

Hitting on themes such as trauma, emotional abuse, marriage, mental illness, and grief, these essays delve into how humans are simultaneously beautiful and terrible to one another.

Though regardless of how we might make each other shatter, our hearts continue beating—even when we might not want them to—and we wade through the wreckage of our lives to find ways to survive.

With exquisite language and captivating storytelling, the essays in Human Heartbeat Detected face what it means to be human.

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Critics praise Clammer's work for its fearless compassion and innovative style. Dinty W. Moore highlights its energy and boundary-pushing prose that moves toward revelation and understanding. Jill Talbot notes the vivid portrayals of women struggling with profound challenges and the boldness of Clammer’s essayistic impulses, describing the collection as full of surprises and emotional impact.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636280554

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Red Hen Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 248

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Chelsey Clammer Non-Fiction

About the Author

Chelsey Clammer is the author of the award-winning essay collection, Circadian (Red Hen Press 2017), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Hobart, Brevity, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Normal School, and Black Warrior Review. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women on Writing and is a freelance editor. Chelsey received an MFA in creative writing from Rainier Writing Workshop, and an MA in women’s studies from Loyola University Chicago. She currently resides in Colorado.