Andrea Gibson
Paperback | Pages: 99 pages Rating: 4.5 | 2076 Users | 157 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Pole Dancing To Gospel Hymns |
| ISBN: | 0981521304 (ISBN13: 9780981521305) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, challenges us to not only read, but to react. Hauntingly vivid, the poems march through a soldier's lingering psychological wounds, tackle the curious questions of school children on the meaning of "hate," and tangle with a lover's witty and vibrant description of longing. Gibson's poems deconstruct the current political climate through stunning imagery and careful crafting. With the same velocity, the poignant and vacillating love poems sweep the air out of the room. It's word-induced hypoxia. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns whispers with a bold and unforgettable internal voice rich with the kind of questioning that inspires action.Declare Appertaining To Books Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
| Title | : | Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns |
| Author | : | Andrea Gibson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 99 pages |
| Published | : | June 13th 2008 by Write Bloody Publishing |
| Categories | : | Poetry. LGBT. GLBT. Queer |
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Ratings: 4.5 From 2076 Users | 157 ReviewsComment On Appertaining To Books Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
I bought this book the second time I went to see Andrea Gibson before and while I was reading their most recent book Lord of the Butterflies. I preface this review with this, because the poems of Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns are directly juxtaposed with their most recent work, where they found their stride and developed a powerful voice. To clarify, the poems in this book are still quite good. They capture an incredible mosaic of so many problems assaulting our world. Gibson leaves no topicThis book is magnificent in every sense of the word. I loved it and, even more than I did before, I love Andrea Gibson. I cannot really say much on it because I don't read a lot of poetry, so I have nothing really to compare this too, but I thoroughly enjoyed this. Please read this book. It's eye opening, in my opinion.
Fav poems in the collection that is stronger than 3 stars: "See Through", "Birthday","Swing-Set","When the Bough Breaks".I look forward to reading more poetry collections of Gibson, at times t there is such power in poets voice that it can almost hit you in the face like the first i saw Gibson reading even better poems at a Spoken word poetry festival in Uppsala, Sweden.
I absolutely adore Andrea Gibson, but I do think her poetry works better performed than read off the page. I also noticed more than a few typos in the book, which was a little disappointing.
all kinds of heavy and sad and radical and loud and beautiful.
Lover, this is not just another poem.This is my goddamn revolt.I am done holding my tongue like a bible.There is too much war in every verseor our silence.We have all dug too many trenches away from ourselves.
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