Take Me With You
  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780735219519
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00
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Take Me With You

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23 Jan 2018
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15 Feb 2017
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For readers of Rupi Kaur and Alison Bechdel, a book small enough to carry with you, with messages big enough to stay with you, from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time.

A “surprising and powerful” (The Millions) book of poetry that’s small enough to carry with you, but full of messages big enough to stay with you—from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time, the subject of the award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light.

Just to be clear, I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate heavens for all my flying parts.

In Take Me With You, Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a fierce willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to heal and to be different in this strange age.

Illustrated throughout with evocative line drawings by Sarah J. Coleman, this book is divided into three sections: On Love, On the World, and On Becoming. Written in one-liners, couplets, greatest hits phrases, and longer-form poems, it has something for everyone, and is destined to be placed in stockings, lockers, and the hands of anyone who could use its wisdom.
  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780735219519
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for Take Me With You

"I have the luxury of being friends and working with some of the greatest writers out there today... love, love, love... poet Andrea Gibson."--Tig Notaro
"Andrea Gibson's work is imbued with the unfettered honesty and beautifully rendered language that made them a pioneer in the spoken word community. Their work does not apologize for existing at the intersections. It holds complicated truths together and rejects the false choice of artist or activist. In many ways, my work is only possible because of theirs, and we are so fortunate that they continue to create art and put it out into the world." --Clint Smith
"They represent the America I want to live in. Their work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go."--Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of Dr. Mütter's Marvels
"Gibson does not just show up to pluck your heart strings. They stick around to tune them. If being floored is new to you, ya might want to grab a cushion. Whatever the opposite of fooling someone is, Andrea does that."--Buddy Wakefield, author of Gentleman Practice
"At once deeply haunting and profoundly inspiring... To call them one of the best poets is a gross understatement. They are a rare artist who forever changes those who experience their poems."--Carlos Andrés Gómez, author of Man Up

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