Listen to an interview with Bambi Lake by August Bernadicou on the QueerCore Podcast
Devour Me, Again: Collected Poems
A landmark collection of poems by Bambi Lake, the beloved (and bad-mouthed) icon of San Francisco’s counterculture.
Archival, Poetry
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Bambi 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.
Here 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.”
The collection includes a series of interviews by August Bernadicou and a foreword by Brontez Purnell.
Praise
There’s something upbeat and vulnerable in Bambi’s memoir in verse, beckoning us with a wink to hear her heartache, wit, loss, and triumph.
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Details
ISBN: 9781643623061
Paperback, 128 pages, 5.25 x 8.25 in.
Publication Date: July 21, 2026
Editor(s): August Bernadicou
Reviews
Bambi Lake’s work pulses with raw memories of nights spent searching for her place. The writing is gossipy, diaristic, and armed with levity. The punk-cabaret chanteuse and underground superstar tells all. Who slept with who. What happened between the sheets. Rejections and heartbreak. Always exuding glamour and attitude.
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