"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…mehr
"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.""--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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I. Sex and Violence Climate Environment Etymology of Gun The Brass Bell My Father Tells the Story of Seeing Tanya Tucker Dancing on a Bar How to Drive in Snow The Mirror of God Is Only Glass Litany Marigolds Piety New Town The Part of My Father Will Be Played by Jack Nicholson Every Time You Type Moth, You Type Mother The Book of Eyes In Vivo Paradox Girl on Girl Aging Luster Lakes of the Other Carolina Year of the Bonfires The Human Animal animals making music The Questionmark Butterfly Invasion Prophesy II. Hiatus thaw The Mass Shooter of the Day Lived on My Childhood Street (another) Reinvention of the Beginning of the Universe Prosperity Algorithm Land and Sky As Soon as We Are Born We Start to Die Appellation Before Christening 5 Stork making a man blonde boy epiphany Trigger Warning Pentecost Pastoral of the Upland South Culling Jeremiad The Two Near-Deaths of My Father Like the Resurrection of Roseanne Vanitas The Position of the Sun in the Sky Far Cry Attrition The Year We Met No ideas but in objects The Future The Birth of the Moon Acknowledgments
I. Sex and Violence Climate Environment Etymology of Gun The Brass Bell My Father Tells the Story of Seeing Tanya Tucker Dancing on a Bar How to Drive in Snow The Mirror of God Is Only Glass Litany Marigolds Piety New Town The Part of My Father Will Be Played by Jack Nicholson Every Time You Type Moth, You Type Mother The Book of Eyes In Vivo Paradox Girl on Girl Aging Luster Lakes of the Other Carolina Year of the Bonfires The Human Animal animals making music The Questionmark Butterfly Invasion Prophesy II. Hiatus thaw The Mass Shooter of the Day Lived on My Childhood Street (another) Reinvention of the Beginning of the Universe Prosperity Algorithm Land and Sky As Soon as We Are Born We Start to Die Appellation Before Christening 5 Stork making a man blonde boy epiphany Trigger Warning Pentecost Pastoral of the Upland South Culling Jeremiad The Two Near-Deaths of My Father Like the Resurrection of Roseanne Vanitas The Position of the Sun in the Sky Far Cry Attrition The Year We Met No ideas but in objects The Future The Birth of the Moon Acknowledgments
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