Reviews - Lord of the Butterflies

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Lord of the Butterflies

Andrea Gibson

4.41 AVERAGE

elemomi's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Reading Andrea Gibson’s work is simultaneously devastating and revelatory, especially now. But I’m holding on to the connection of these two ideas, from “All the Good in You” and “Living Proof”:

When all the good in you / starts arguing with all the bad in you / about who you really are, / never let the bad in you / make the better case.

… my whole world, my whole mind / went home with living proof / of what I’d only before known in theory: / that we are truly not alone in this, / that our veins are absolutely strings / tied to other people’s kites, / that our lives are that connected.

shipwreckshark's review against another edition

5.0

A delicious poetry collection curated for queer and margarinalized voices. A critique on the fascist state of America that highlights how these institutions never served us. The stark comparisons to the way the poetics of art is the only voice to truly encapsulate these issues!