The Crimes of Clara Turlington
Johnson, Meg![The Crimes of Clara Turlington](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/373/37301301/CHSBZCOP0337301301.jpg)
In Meg Johnson's second full length poetry collection, 'The Crimes of Clara Turlington', women break the rules and pass for good girls. As the poem Slugger reveals, "I could never be / a suspect, cardigan / and pink lips." Clara Turlington and her contemporaries are contradictions, both trouble-making thrill seekers and faultless products of their environment. "... I didn't know / my mind would become a neon / death scene ..." (Ex's Exit). Sca...