You Better Be Lightning (Paperback)
Staff Reviews
Andrea Gibson is a true pioneer of performance poetry. Her books have won numerous awards and sold over 120, 000 copies. You Better Be Lightning is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. Someone love knows their work and would love this newest collection.
— From LGBTQIA+
Andrea Gibson is a true pioneer of performance poetry. Her books have won numerous awards and sold over 120, 000 copies. You Better Be Lightning is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. Someone love knows their work and would love this newest collection.
— From Poetry
Andrea Gibson is a true pioneer of performance poetry. Her books have won numerous awards and sold over 120, 000 copies. You Better Be Lightning is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. Someone love knows their work and would love this newest collection.
— From African American VoicesThe 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.