{"product_id":"devour-me-again-collected-poems-by-bambi-lake","title":"DEVOUR ME, AGAIN: COLLECTED POEMS by Bambi Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e140 x 215mm, 128 pages, Black \u0026amp; white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBambi Lake was a trans chanteuse, performer, provocateur, and countercultural darling of the ’70s, and subsequent decades. “The Glamorous Life follows me around,” she sang in her ballad “The Golden Age of Hustlers” (later popularized by Justin Vivian Bond). Her life in San Francisco—including being on the fringes of the Cockettes, and a member of the adjacent Angels of Light—was “sort of legendary,” sort of “sweet, sticky, nasty,” and always precarious, lived in spite of addiction, homelessness, and the horrors that came from chasing and surviving her own desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are her poems, long out of print, that wear “burgundy velvet jezebel bras” to seduce “fatally hetero” men, detailing the cabaret of desire amidst social, cultural, and political change. “I am Beauty,” she writes, “and the world dissolves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes a series of interviews by August Bernadicou and a foreword by Brontez Purnell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57016864768386,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_6034062.jpg?v=1794063926","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/devour-me-again-collected-poems-by-bambi-lake","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}