You Better Be Lightning Bianca Phipps Najya Williams flexes her gift

Najya Williams flexes her gift of rhythmic language and poetic form to tell honest tales about Black girl and womanhood

introduces them to the native flora

Praise for Steven Willis

who appears within these pages to minimise the dangers of sex work and speculate about lesbians

— Rigoberto González

You Better Be Lightning Bianca Phipps Najya Williams flexes her giftAndrea Gibson, 2021 You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self reflection. The 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