Bøker av Jennie Malboeuf

Inher second collection, JUMP THE GUN, Jennie Malboeuf digs deep into the hiddenrecesses of a life, exploring the stages and struggles of womanhood, the waysin which memory shapes us, and the continual fight against the darkundercurrents of grief and gun violence that shadow our daily lives in America.The speaker in thesepoems wrestles with the everyday fears and realities we often try to ignore:the complex expectationsplaced on young girls and mothers alike, the illusion of childhood innocence,and the very realconsequences of our environmental destruction.Split into twosections—with poems that layer blood-soaked images alongside close-ups of thebody and domestic life thatbloom with intimacy—this collection deftly illustrates the beauty that can befound in tragedy, thefragility of the natural world, and the resilience of the human relationshipsthat fill it.To read JUMP THE GUNis 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 thesame. / But from violence comes / the tides, the seasons.”