Review: Take Me with You

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

Take Me With You is an exploration of life through poetry. It covers a wide range of topics, all starting with personal experience, but expanding ideas to be universal.

In terms of subject matter and its relation to the poet, this collection seems to come from the Rupi Kaur School of Poetry, which is a big trend right now. However, where Gibson differs from Kaur is that the collection isn't really a bunch of pieces put together, but seems to be a single entity because it's hard to tell where one piece ends and the next one begins.

What I did enjoy the most about this collection is that while there are plenty of line drawings to check out, there is also a variety of fonts sizes, text color, and bold emphasis that help to transform the poetry from the page. I could imagine the way a voice would interpret these text changes into a moving performance. And although a lot of this collection is written in paragraph form (which isn't my favorite way to read poetry), the breakup of the text like this helps you digest each thought.

*Book provided by NetGalley


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