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Sonnets on the Attempted Murder of Me, Bugs B by Ingrid Jacobsen
Sonnets on the Attempted Murder of Me, Bugs B
by Ingrid Jacobsen    

      A certain famous cartoon bunny realizes everyone is trying to kill him in Ingrid Jacobsen's debut collection of poems.      

        “An utterly original act of ekphrasis, bursting with paranoia and philosophy.”
        —Amanda Quaid, author of No Obvious Distress

        “Equal parts Elizabethan singsong and technicolor wisecrack, the voice of Jacobsen’s Bugs Bunny is the voice of American literature, the tragicomic sloganeering of a hero too proud to back down in the face of certain danger.”
        —Stephen Piccarella, writer for The Nation and n+1

        “Jacobsen’s tale of a cartoon bunny pursued by a tireless hunter transforms into many things at once, including the life I am living, and the lives my friends are living, despite our best efforts.”
        —Dolan Morgan, author of That’s When the Knives Come Down

        “Through the force of Jacobsen’s thinking and writing, a fictional bunny continues to show me how to be a person. This book is nothing less than the ideal animation of that undying contest between reflective and prereflective conscious selves embodied together in the intersubjective realm. It is also just really, really good poetry, and especially striking in a world where every episode is the one where Fudd wins.”
        —Joshua Mehigan, author of Accepting the Disaster

        “I will never look at sonnets or Looney Tunes the same way again.”
        —AW Strouse, author of The Gentrified City of God