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4.59 AVERAGE
4.59 AVERAGE
This is my favorite Gibson book yet, and even though I say that every time they come out with something new, this one REALLY is incredible.
Anything by Andrea Gibson is always exceptional to me. This one was absolutely no different.
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Andrea Gibson has all my love, that's all.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Andrea Gibson is the type of poet that smashes into your chest -- to gently cradle your heart and squeeze it back to life. Their poems personally resonate with me in a lot of ways. I'm always happy to revisit their heart-wrenching imagery to feel a little ... something.
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challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
sad
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
i have never been a poetry person - school scared me away from it and it feels too fancy and abstract and inaccessible for me to ever understand it. but i got this book because i heard one of andrea gibson’s poems on youtube years ago and loved it and have followed them on instagram for years and wanted to read more of their work. i feel like 80% of this book went way over my head and i will need to reread it more slowly and carefully to know what to say about it, but i do know that it was beautiful and i think i want to read it again, or read one of their other collections. there was poetry about queerness and climate change and chronic illness and love. one of my favorite lines was “i don’t know how to save the world,/but the questions themselves are telescopes./I know there is medicine in knowing/how much we don’t know. I know/there are answers in being awestruck”
You can feel the electricity fizzling through this book. The poems are fireflies lighting up your soul.
Andrea Gibson’s work has been a constant source of inspiration and catharsis to me. The way they use poetics to convey just about every emotion in one poem is so incredibly well done, and something you don’t see all that often these days. Gibson is a treasure of a poet and I’m so grateful their work exists. This collection was incredible. And to answer the question on page 88: no.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad