Description
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.
Noelani Evans (verified owner) –
This little chapter book is dark, delicious, and deep about life, love, and random thoughts. Perfect reading for cold Winter days and nights. This is one of my favorite lines to savor, “Is love nothing but a desperate act of consumption?”
Brooksie (verified owner) –
Loved this book! The poetry keeps you mind in motion as each poem takes your mind away to another world
David Francis –
The poems contained in Jessie Ehman’s collection of “The One in Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life” are presented through a variety of structures, a rich diversity and form and excellent word usage to communicate and create for the reader a mood, feeling and emotion through a lens of substance, heartache, despair, rejection, introspection and yet, hope for what may come.
K.A. Fugere (verified owner) –
If you are wanting a visceral look at life and living, this chap book will certainly keep you engaged. You will journey through a bevy of emotions and imagery with just a hint of sarcasm. This collection of poems is deeply moving and certainly deserves two thumbs up.
Sara Harlan –
Jessie Ehman’s poems reveal a steel-trap memory – someone who holds on to every conversation, every encounter and later creates word-portraits of her experiences. They are difficult to consume, a dark assault of blood, bones and bruises and nightmarish encounters that feel honest, written by a sensitive soul who carries her pain in pockets of poetry. Reading her poems make me feel my own pain in a way that I thought I had outgrown, or that life had overgrown with more recent joyful experiences. Ms. Ehman’s word bank is expansive and perfect; she constructs cathedrals of images from unexpected combinations of words that are both powerful and fragile. I am thankful for the experience of reading them.