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chanadevorah 's review for:
You Better Be Lightning
by Andrea Gibson
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”