JAKE ZIMKIEWICZ

bleeder. is a collection of poems that refuses to look away. Jake Zimkiewicz crafts a book that moves through grief, desire, faith, violence, memory, and survival with an unflinching, intimate voice that feels both confessional and confrontational. These poems do not seek resolution they sit inside the wound, tracing its edges until something human emerges.

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Across pieces like “sunday forever,” “family tree,” “party favor,” and “apple,” Zimkiewicz examines generational trauma, religious shame, childhood loss, and the quiet brutality of growing up unsafe. Love appears throughout the book, but rarely without teeth—romantic, queer, tender, and devastating all at once. Desire is rendered as something both sacred and dangerous, while intimacy becomes a site of risk, reclamation, and survival.

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Original release: January 3O, 2O26