“Unlocking Secrets: How Heather Bartel’s ‘Exit the Body’ Transforms Lost Souls into Unforgettable Journeys”
Some of the essays are more accessible than others, their meaning seemingly more transparent. Others may require multiple readings to reveal themselves. In all cases, there are layers, with words and form used to multiple, often illusory, almost always lyric effect. For example, this excerpt of “The Phantom Was Part of the Flower”:
“It is the possibility of otherness, of disappearing into a dream, of going to ghost, that the transformation could occur without our compliance or even without our noticing—this possibility is what haunts me when I see these women scream, when I am the one screaming, when all I see behind my eyes is white and I do not recognize what lies in front of me, what should be irrevocable, familiar, concrete.”
