The powerful new collection of poetry and prose from social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy, Charly Cox.
She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.
Charly captures the formative experiences of today's young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt. Wayward nights out that don't go as planned; the righteous anger at those men with no talent or skill or smarts who occupy the most powerful positions in the world; the strange banality of madness and, of course, the hurt and indecision of unrequited love.
For every woman surviving and thriving in today's world, for every girl who feels too much; this is a call for communion, and you are not alone.
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[Nobody ever tells you there'll be comedians and poets, actors and academics, college students and forty-year-old men to fall in love with] ***(HQ, 12 July 2018, ebook, 200 pages, ARC from publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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This is my first time reading the author. I really enjoyed this collection of fiction and poetry. I enjoyed the poetry a fraction more. Cox tackles subjects that are both Universal, feelings most people can relate to and also very personal. I have particular tastes when it comes to poems. I dislike poems about nature and the like. I love poems about human emotions and experiences, about falling in love, fucking your life up and the like. She Must Be Mad is full of the type of poems I enjoy the most. I liked the fact the poems are written in a range of styles.
