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The One In Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life by Jessie Ehman

$14.99

 

The poems in Jessie Ehman’s debut sift through sorrows such as lost love and existential isolation, but refuse to take themselves too seriously. Like the verbal eyeroll in the title, each poem asks for personal attention, but demands a lens on the larger world. With poetic influences as wide as W B Yeats and Dean Young, and commentary on social movements, such as #metoo, here is a voice interested in all human fictions, cold hard reality, and various relationships between people. These are poems of despair, “not even the mercy of a loveless kiss,” and poems full of the healthy search for meaning in our modern world as the “Jackson Pollack of bears…means so much to me.” This inventive, intelligent voice offers sardonic wit with a side of mirthful hope.

–Jeremy Voigt

 

 

 

The One In Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life

by Jessie Ehman

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-308-2

2020

The One In Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life is a collection of poems focusing on the narrator’s various interpersonal relationships as well as the gradual realization of themselves as an autonomous and independent being. This exploration of both the internal and external is often viewed and further scrutinized through the foliage-covered lens of the natural world—hence the lingering presence of “Bambi.” The chapbook also meditates on political, social, and global issues such as human sexuality, the “me too” movement, and a certain sense of existential dread stemming from societal and individualist isolation. Although cynical in voice and overall tone these poems ultimately strive to uncover the metaphorical light at the end of the tunnel.

Jessie Ehman graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. Her poems have appeared in Hanging Loose Magazine, Saxifrage, Pif Magazine, and KYSO Flash. She currently lives in Puyallup, Washington. The One In Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life is her first poetry collection.

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