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Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

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katharina90's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

I have so much love for Andrea Gibson and there are many poems and lines in this collection that I keep coming back to. "America, Reloading" in particular is incredibly powerful.
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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

I have so much love for Andrea Gibson and there are many poems and lines in this collection that I keep coming back to. "America, Reloading" in particular is incredibly powerful.
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caelinsullivan's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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courtneyfalling's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

These poems definitely feel written for performance and immediate impact, but sometimes at the expense of how complicated or careful their messages can be. "Fight for Love," for example, shows a pretty toxic relationship, and honestly, if someone wrote that for me, it would be a wake-up call to leave that relationship. 

A lot of these poems were long and varied, so I didn't really have favorite poems, more favorite or memorable lines:
  • "the unbearable loneliness / of sanity"
  • "fought god / for the rights / to the apocalypse"
  • The Day You Died Because You Wanted To
  • "A few years ago a friend asked if you'd ever had a childhood. You said, No—but that wasn't right. What you haven't had is an adulthood." 
  • "What do I think we should be doing / about Syria? Imagining until we grieve. / Grieving until we act // like we know what kind of laughter / is the sound of the beginning / of the end of the world."
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