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5.0
Gibson's poetry is beautiful, provocative, and evoking of so many emotions that I didn't even realize that I had, or pay enough attention to. Reading their work felt like having a long, cathartic cry and then picking myself back up again from the ground to face the sun. Andrea writes with brutal honest the horrors of America - they effortlessly portray issues like racism, feminism that fights for equality but not equality for all women, school shootings, grief, and homophobia through a haunting lens that will leave you thinking for a long time. I've written down some of my favourite passages below, but if I included them all, I would be here forever.
Your life at the prom where you'll run home in a snowstorm, chucking your last pair of heels in a snowbank, realising you are the only boy you ever wanted to tear your dress off for .
Like we could actually get comfortable being the uneaten animal in the lap of the man making lampshades out of human skin.
I pose you beside our bloodline, our grandfather throwing his liver through the kitchen window, our grandmother on her knees sweeping up the glass. I zoom in to the pieces she didn't find. I find them in the sole of your shoes on your worst day of junior high.
Even life is like funeral practice: half of us already dead to our families before we die.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Drug abuse, Racism, Grief, and Religious bigotry