Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

5 reviews

noura's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

3.0

To annotate a poetry book is like wanting to create pockets of time to come back to every time you feel like existence is a burden you can no longer bear.

Andrea Gibson excels at that. That said this collection was not one that I can see myself coming back to often or even remembering what I read.

Anyway, pick up the audiobook if you get the chance because it being narrated by the author gave it an extra star. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Transphobia

katharina90's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, and Transphobia

katharina90's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, and Transphobia

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia and Transphobia

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicide, and Transphobia