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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.

In this anthology of poetry, combining her bestselling collections She Must Be Mad and Validate Me, and with 70 new poems and handwritten annotations, she paints a complex picture of the formative experiences of womanhood and living with Bipolar II disorder.

This is an account of a life lived online. Swiping for approval. Scrolling for gratification. Searching for connection. From the glow of a screen in the middle of the night, to the harsh glare of the hospital waiting room, Validate Me, is a raw and honest look at the highs and the lows of a digital life.

Cuando un poeta exalta a otros poetas, la elegía cobra inusitadas dimensiones versísticas como en el caso del presente libro en sus manos. Son poetas que ya nos han dejado pero cobran vida intensa y con una vitalidad que ellos mismos desearían en cada uno de los poemas que crearán en el lector una profunda reflexión. La huella que deja un verso nos mueve a ahondar las nuestras con propia trascendencia en la vida.

The Rails of Drowsiness makes us feel, not merely listen to, verses that are the sensitive source to remember with there capability of joining essential meanings of life. They transport us to the places where the feeling travels in the company of the words that sensitize them. The verses of Gerardo Brauer have been characterized by the most significant metaphysics and magnified by exquisite metaphorical constructions: They are the rails of somnolence, heading to the nocturnal journey that we prosecute every day.