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Jennie Malboeuf - jump the gun, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

jump the gun

Av Jennie Malboeuf

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jump the gun digs deep into the dark undercurrents of grief and gun violence that shadow our daily lives in America. These poems uproot the hidden recesses of life, the stages and struggles of womanhood, and our continual fight against violence, both internal and external, in the U.S. today. The speaker in these poems wrestles with the everyday fears and realities we often try to ignore: the complex expectations placed on young girls and mothers alike, the illusion of childhood innocence, and the very real consequences of our environmental destruction. Split into two sections—with poems that layer blood-soaked images between close-ups of the body and domestic life—this collection deftly illustrates the beauty that can be found in tragedy, the fragility of the natural world, and the resilience of the human relationships that fill it. To read jump the gun is to witness yourself through the crosshairs. In Malboeuf’s words, “What hit you has become you. / Pieces of the bullet embedded / in your skin. Even / that which you come from / will never be the same. / But from violence comes / the tides, the seasons.”
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-29
  • Mått: 152 x 228 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 148 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 70
  • Förlag: BOA Editions, Limited
  • ISBN: 9781960145413
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Jennie Malboeuf is the author of jump the gun, forthcoming from (BOA Editions, 2025), and God had a body, awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books Prize by Adrian Matejka (Indiana UP and the Indiana Review, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, The Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and Harvard Review. Born and raised in Kentucky, she received a BA at Centre College and an MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is the recipient of a 2020 NC Arts Council Fellowship. She lives in Kentucky with her husband, son, and dog.

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"jump the gunis made of sharp and beautiful poems. There is a striking fullness to thelives, experiences, and landscapes within these pages, all toldwith arresting clarity—‘Enough of mirrors. They are water,’ Jennie Malboeuf writes. Asincisive as it is lyrical, as vast as it is intimate, this book is a force." —Chloe Honum, author of TheLantern Room"Jennie Malboeuf’s jump the gun is a bookof temporal distortions, sudden jumps, hesitations, and slowed and sped up lines,that take the reader through a complex of registers circling gun culture,violence, family, and the natural world in often startling juxtapositions.It’s a formally thrilling collection, even as the content moves from lyricallybeautiful to starkly brutal. ‘I’m so tired of the pattern of snow then rain.Irony after irony, your / suffering then mine handed / back and forth,’ Malboeufwrites, and I feel that tension, that inevitable ‘back and forth’ throughoutthe book, the closely observed violences enacted daily, directly presented,forcing us to look at ourselves, this world we’ve made. But even at its most unflinchinglyconflicted, with ‘The father in father clothes. / The mother in mother hair,’it’s filled with empathy, as this imperative to look, to remember, to see theworld’s violence and misfortune, is also to remind ourselves that it’s alsofilled with creation, continuance. It’s a deeply humane book, one I’ve beenutterly captivated by." —JohnGallaher, author of Brand New Spacesuit

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