5/18/2023 0 Comments Wain by Rachel Plummer![]() ![]() ![]() They offer us empathy and ask for it in return. They encourage us to think differently about queer identity, abuse, depression, oppression, hope, and relief. These poems can be quickly memorised and carried around like a mantra. It’s the shorter poems, ones made up of just a handful of short lines, that hit hardest though. You’ll also find dense metaphors that border on the strange and the surreal, but which will nonetheless strike a nerve deep inside a primal connection of love and understanding between you and them. ![]() In You Better Be Lightning, you’ll find longer narrative poems that tell specific tales of experiences both personal and universal. Non-binary American poet Andrea Gibson has gathered together here a collection of lyrical, sometimes surreal, sometimes narrative poems about love, identity, growth, and so much more. ![]()
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