You Better Be Lightning
You Better Be Lightning
by Andrea Gibson
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About the Book
2021 Goodreads Choice Awards – Finalist (Best Poetry Book)
2021 Bookshop’s Indie Press Highlights
2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards – Gold Medal Winner (Poetry)
2022 American Library Association Over The Rainbow – Shortlist
2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards – Poetry – Winner
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is 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.
About the Author
Andrea Gibson has proven to be one of the most quotable and
influential poets of our time and has made a career at the forefront of
the spoken-word movement. Gibson was the first winner of the Women’s World Poetry Slam and has headlined prestigious performance venues all over the country and abroad. Gibson regularly tours, performing poetry that focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform, and the struggles LGBTQ people face in today’s society. A devoted fan base sees Gibson’s work as a rally cry to action and a welcome mat at the door of the heart’s most compassionate room. Born in Calais, Maine, Gibson now resides outside Boulder, Colorado.
www.andreagibson.org
Editorial Reviews
"Andrea Gibson’s work shows up to your door without any pretension. It gives, pushes, and asks, knowing that even its beauty cannot answer it all. Each poem is a small fire signaling home, and home happens to be ourselves. Gibson has generously given us a blissful surrender to the immensity known as love." —Yesika Salgado, author of Corazón
"With such tenderness and empathy and humor, Andrea Gibson’s You Better Be Lightning does such important dreaming work, visioning work, looking work, in this stunning collection of generous poems. Of these poems’ infinite superpowers, my favorite might be their use of anecdotes as a sort of beckoning, welcoming a reader into this book’s lush ecosystem of intimacy. Read these poems and feel held, welcomed, forgiven." —Safia Elhillo, author of Home Is Not a Country