Review: Take Me with You

Take Me with You by Andrea Gibson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Boulder, Colorado poet Andrea Gibson has been writing about gender, orientation, and social and political LGBTQ issues for more than a decade. Their eminently quotable work first broke onto the scene with poetry slam performances in the early 2000's. "Take Me With You" is a volume of love found and lost poetry that also touches on one of their frequent themes- being, whether the risks of being yourself, of being lost, or of being here. With beautiful ink and gouache illustrations, the book speaks not just to LGBTQ persons but to anyone who has struggled with becoming who they really are, or to those searching, finding, losing love.

Gibson, who also records albums of poetry with music, recently released their latest album, "Hey Galaxy."

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