Gigglepuss

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Pub Date 01 Apr 2022 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2022

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Description

Exposing and reworking the dark corners of past traumas.

Gigglepuss delves into a past pock marked with loss, broken family dynamics, and the looming shadow of familial mental illness. These poems touch on sexual abuse, lost relationships, the influence of pop culture, and the intensity of motherhood set against the at times humorous backdrop of stark self-awareness, irony and even absurdity. Bucking against a patriarchal society, this collection is a provocative, reflective and at times confrontational portrayal of our human need for connection, self-identity and home.

Exposing and reworking the dark corners of past traumas.

Gigglepuss delves into a past pock marked with loss, broken family dynamics, and the looming shadow of familial mental illness. These poems...


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Debut poetry collection

Debut poetry collection


Advance Praise

Gigglepuss is a mesmerizing world tucked inside of a young girl’s heart. Entrenched in memory, Gigglepuss interrogates experiences, a sense of self, and an untameable desire to be loved. From girlhood to womanhood, Blume allows us to peek through the keyhole, unlock the door and travel across the raw, peeled back underbelly of a life lived, and living. In doing so she reminds us that the experiences that do indeed shape us do not define us. —Chelene Knight author of the award-winning memoir, Dear Current Occupant


Carlie Blume is a poet of nostalgia and bays, family and the moon. The speakers in her poems come of age in the “leftover air” of dead malls and pines, seeing what we would like not to see: violence and tenderness in the lives of girls and women. Gigglepuss is a riot for the heartstrings. —Shazia Hafiz Ramji, author of Port of Being


You might be tempted (and forgiven) for deep diving into your own nostalgia after reading Blume’s Gigglepuss, and like the protagonist, you'll remember and feel the sharpness of the past, of loneliness, of figuring one’s place in this world, and contending with life's demons. Blume’s voice is sharp, at times quirky, cutting through the haze of sentimentality; there’s no self-pity here. A wonderful debut collection. —Junie Désil, author of eat salt|gaze at the ocean

Gigglepuss is a mesmerizing world tucked inside of a young girl’s heart. Entrenched in memory, Gigglepuss interrogates experiences, a sense of self, and an untameable desire to be loved. From...


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ISBN 9781771837002
PRICE $17.95 (USD)
PAGES 100

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I loved everything about Gigglepuss, from the title to the artwork, to the poetry itself. The words gripped me and spoke to the experience of girlhood and loss of innocence from trauma and abuse. Memorable, touching, and emotional.

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I would like to thank Guernica Editions for providing me with an Advanced Reader Copy of Gigglepuss through NetGalley.
Charlie Brumes writes about her trauma in a visceral way.
I found rather interesting the juxtaposition of nostalgia and innocent childhood memories with the rawness of sexual violence.

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I loved Carlie Blume’s debut collection, “Gigglepuss”, published by Guernica Editions. Blume writes boldly and fearlessly, unafraid to show her vulnerability in many brave, haunting poems. I look forward to reading her next collection.

About the poet

Carlie Blume was born on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver). She is a 2017 graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio and her work has appeared in “The Maynard”, “Train: a poetry journal”, “Ghost City Review” and more. She currently lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C with her husband and two children.

Many thanks to @Netgalley and @guernicaeditions for the ARC.

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