December 2011
32 posts
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rea-sunshine asked: To the person asking about poems about anxiety/depression, here are a few really good ones: "I Sing the Body Electric (Especially When My Power's Out)" is a love poem she wrote to her body for the days it's hard to even just get out of bed. "Ashes" is about war and death and it never fails to make me cry. "Trellis" is also a great one and, if I'm not...
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Anonymous asked: Do you know if Andrea has ever written a poem about anxiety or depression?
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Anonymous asked: I know that the chances of Andrea Gibson seeing this is like....1 in 100000000000000. But I just wanted to share that my parents are really strapped for money right now. they always are but christmas is always just so much more difficult for them. I went to college 4 months ago and apparently since then, they have been saving money up to buy me four of Andrea Gibson's CD's. They really...
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inthecathedrals asked: Hey, is the poem "Sleeping" in her book The Madness Vase? I can't find it anywhere!!! :/
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party-on-garth asked: Just want everyone to keep in mind, I've talked to Andrea in person at a show about the fact that the books are not entirely accurate, some things have been removed. Example being the beginning line to 'Anything' in Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns.
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katattackish asked: I knew that she tweeted it but I was pretty positive I heard it. I guess not. Thanks everyone :)
“If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart...”
– Andrea Gibson (via asleeplessmindxvx)
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loverofstories asked: @ katattckish, the quote "to think a sweater..." is from her poem 'Somewhere, A Carpenter'. It's in her new book 'The Madness Vase' pg 45.
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shuddertree asked: re: "To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village." it's something she said on her twitter! no idea if it's from a poem.
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katattackish asked: What poem is the lines "to think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village." from? I've been looking everywhere and I can't find it. :(
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thiefofwords asked: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the lines"I had never seen a person/so finished with God/her face was a massacre of grief/her cries like shoveled granite/chewed her shrilling throat“all that they left was the flag”she kept screaming/I thought her lungs would start bleeding/it scraped my chest clean/hollowed me for weeks/our house was the echo of...
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queertails asked: "I have never seen a person so finished with God . . ." is from "Sleeping"! Such an amazing piece.
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jeremywilks asked: What is the poem the following quote is from? I can't seem to find the name. “I had never seen a person/so finished with God/her face was a massacre of grief/her cries like shoveled granite/chewed her shrilling throat“all that they left was the flag”she kept screaming/I thought her lungs would start bleeding/it scraped my chest clean/hollowed me for weeks/our house was the...
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feyboy asked: The poem that person is looking for is Class. It's on her new CD, Flower Boy. :)
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jeremywilks asked: The poem in question has the line: "I had just enough bite to believe her" in it. Hope this helps. Neither Walmart nor Jewelry Store are it. She performed Jewelry Store later that evening, actually.
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breakthemidnightchains asked: try 'walmart' - I think that might be the one that person means
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breakthemidnightchains asked: Actually scrap that, it is 'the jewelry store' for definite
whowatcheswatchmen asked: Nah it's not Crab Apple Pirates. She talks about her home town specifically in it. She prefaced the poem with a small speech about how she had spent a lot of her life being ashamed by her home town and how they had an odd accent and that going to college was an oddity. The only parts I vaguely remember of the actual poem itself are about an old woman with a missing tooth and catching fish....
Andrea Gibson - I Do
I typed all of these out for an art thing at one point, so here you (and all your askers!) go!
Andrea Gibson - I Do
bob ede bob a bob ede bob bob bede bob ede bob bdang adang dang a dingy dong ding
i do, i do, i do
dit de dit de dit
do i do i do
bob ede bob a bob ede bob bob bede bob ede bob bdang adang dang a diddy dong ding
i do
but the motherfuckers say we can’t.
because...
I just wanted to apologise for the ask spam;
Unfortunately tumblr doesn’t have a way for me to queue asks received for some reason… Get on it, David Karp.
Anyway, I think I posted the majority of them.
barefootdoll asked: If you type "Andrea Gibson, I Do" into google, the first non-video link is a transcript of the poem on blogspot. Really, guys? Are you even trying?
onanotherteam asked: To the anon asking about the first poem Andrea performed: She said during a show that Walmart was the first slam poem she wrote, however idk if it's the first one she performed.
doctorbee asked: I remember seeing something about someone trying to compile a source for the words of her poems. I just bought Yellowbird and I'd be interested in helping transcribe words. Do you know who was doing that? (Or am I just imagining things?)
adriannnn asked: Do you have the lyrics for I Do??
allthingssoulful asked: Is there any place (other than this blog, obviously) where I could find more of the lyrics to her poems? I can't find to buy her books in my country, and given that english in not my first language, sometime it's a bit hard to try to understand everything she says in her videos...
kileyroseatkins asked: She's said Crab Apple Pirates is about her hometown.
whowatcheswatchmen asked: She performed a poem recently at PLU, and I can't seem to find it. It's about her home town? Anyone know the title?
transitionalalex asked: Hey for anyone in the central Illinois area, Andrea is going to be performing at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington, IL on January 19 at 7 p.m!
“If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart...”
– Andrea Gibson (via atomiclanterns)
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