Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

6 reviews

erkiff's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

jazzlioness's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Violence, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, and Chronic illness

hickorynut's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

Incredibly written and powerful. Lots of TWs but very worth reading for those who can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Antisemitism, Murder, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War

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: Suicide, Gun violence, Transphobia, and Homophobia

priyas's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

honeyandthyme's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

From small, intimate moments between lovers to overarching, political poems, this collection does an excellent job of encompassing the American queer experience. The pacing from work to work is lovely - a good mix of shorter/ longer poems and heavy/lighthearted topics. 

My greatest mistake was reading “Orlando” in public. Of all the poems, this one most thoroughly sucker punched me in the gut. It is incredibly difficult to read, and perfectly portrays the terror inherent in the LGBTQ+ community after the Pulse Nightclub. There are no words to fully express how the author’s amazing writing explores and contextualizes that day. It’s a poem that never should have needed to be written, but because it was, I’m glad Gibson was its author.

Not all poems were as raw as that one, but all were equally as breathtakingly written.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide