You better be lightning

You better be lightning

Andrea Gibson

Book - 2021

A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

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Subjects
2000-2099
Feminism > Poetry.
Love > Poetry.
Sexual minorities > Identity > Poetry.
Gender-nonconforming people > Poetry.
American poetry > 21st century.
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica.
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss.
Sexual minorities > Identity.
Love.
Gender-nonconforming people.
Feminism.
American poetry.
Queer poetry.
Political poetry.
Poetry.
Genres
Queer poetry
Political poetry
Poetry
Published
Minneapolis, MN : Button Publishing Inc 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Andrea Gibson (author)
Physical Description
115 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781943735990
  • Acceptance Speech after Setting the World Record in Goosebumps
  • The Year of No Grudges, or Instead of Writing a Furious Text, I Try a Poem
  • The Museum of Broken Relationships
  • Time Piece
  • Queer Youth Are Five Times More Likely to Die by Suicide
  • No Such Thing as the Innocent Bystander
  • To Whom It Definitely Concerns,
  • Every Time I Ever Said I Want to Die
  • Instead of Depression
  • What Love Is
  • Homesick: a Plea for Our Planet
  • The Day Prince Died
  • My Gender Is the Undoing of Gender
  • Spelling Bee Without Stinger
  • The Night Shift
  • Love Me to Life
  • Love Letter to the Tick that Got Me Sick
  • After the Break-Up, Our Tandem Bike Speaks:
  • Neighbors
  • Note to the Stranger Six Feet Away:
  • Good Grief
  • The Call, Option 1
  • The Call, Option 2
  • What Can't Be Taken
  • The Test of Time
  • Aliens Explain Why They Are Visiting Earth
  • Constellations Rearrange Themselves into a Protest Sign
  • Climate Change
  • Wellness Check
  • My Girlfriend's Karaoke Song
  • What You Wish You'd Said to the High School Guidance Counselor
  • What Sucks About the Afterlife
  • How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best
  • Life Sentence
  • Not Alone
  • How I Became a Poet
  • See This Through
  • The Last Hours
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
Review by Library Journal Review

Prominent on the spoken-word poetry scene, Gibson (Lord of the Butterflies) uses incisive language, whiplash vernacular, and strong narrative flow to contemplate the self in a fraught world, often proceeding by insightful near-epigram ("Bitterness is the easiest way/ to leave this world having had only/ a near life experience"). Whether recording the number of goosebumps raised by kindness to animals or a friend's struggle with pain, plumbing relationships joyous or difficult, or facing the challenges of being queer ("Burning for eternity seemed five times/ more doable than another day/ in the school lunchroom"), these poems are refreshingly forthright but never self-serving. VERDICT An accomplished collection from queer feminist poet Gibson; for all audiences.

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