Clam Down by Anelise Chen Zoologee Billy Collins has emerged as

Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost

Isabella Swan's move to Forks

A fire that could end his world as he knew it

unfairly attractive overachiever who’s managed to alienate everyone around her

--Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Clam Down by Anelise Chen Zoologee Billy Collins has emerged asWe've all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a "clam" via typo after her mother keeps texting her to "clam down." The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to "clam down" to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to "clam up" when we can't speak, and to "come out of our shell"