You Better Be Lightning Bianca Phipps

You Better Be Lightning Bianca PhippsAndrea Gibson, 2021 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

Najya Williams flexes her gift of rhythmic language and poetic form to tell honest tales about Black girl and womanhood

Both True invites readers to embrace the messy

National Youth Poet Laureate

there is a piece of literature that arrives and encapsulates the black experience in a way that gives the reader a new and vibrant perspective of the culture

— Zach Goldberg

author of DOWN

who appears within these pages to minimise the dangers of sex work and speculate about lesbians

Andrea does that

introduces them to the native flora

— Rigoberto González

— Mighty Mike McGee

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