892 reviews for:

Lord of the Butterflies

Andrea Gibson

4.41 AVERAGE

schencksalot's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

getajeevan's review against another edition

4.0

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this was painfully touching, a lot of lines had me teary-eyed

mmaryebrownn's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective

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Some very good poetry, some very 2018 poetry

maxelere's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

emmaroney's review against another edition

3.5

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mary annotated for me <3, as she notes, very 2018 but some really hit

megonmoon's review against another edition

5.0

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Andrea Gibson is officially my favorite poet

rmevans1993's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

genny_g's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

juicebox343's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

sim1lamont's review against another edition

3.0

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“Come, love, make me better than I was.
Come teach me a kinder way to say my own name.”

Did a fun departure from my usual reading queue and tested out some poetry. Trying to get more into it, and overall I think this was a great start as it was accessible and relevant.

I will say, I think Andrea is too millenial for me and a lot of this pertained to a different era of queer experience and I often found it not relatable. Sometimes a phrase would be so cringey it would pull me out of the entire poem.

But when it hits, it hits. Specifically the poems on what it feels like to not be comfortable in your own body, the dissociation from your own skin, and the idea of the soul missing the flesh; all of that really resonated, and I’m definitely open to flexing more of my poetry muscles in the future.