9 Best queer books like Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) by Andrea Gibson

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Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman…

"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

If you liked the queer plot in Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) by Andrea Gibson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim

1. Depression & Other Magic Tricks

By: Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Format: 359 pages,

Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Benaim's Depression & Other Magic Tricks book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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2. Our Numbered Days

By: Neil Hilborn

4.24

Format: 212 pages,

In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more

Similar categories in Neil Hilborn's Our Numbered Days book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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3. After the Witch Hunt

By: Megan Falley

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In Megan Falleys new poetry collection, The Newlydeads, she writes, "...if you really love a writer… read more

Similar categories in Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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4. Redhead and the Slaughter King

By: Megan Falley

3.61

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

The dark, sexy, and dangerous landscape of Redhead & the Slaughter King is illuminated by its truth… read more

Similar categories in Megan Falley's Redhead and the Slaughter King book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • lgbt
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5. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

6. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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7. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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9. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

By: Rudy Francisco

4.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
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10. Helium (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Helium (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"The word “repurpose"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"I held you the way a boat holds water."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

Cover of Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) by Andrea Gibson

11. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

Cover of The Future by Neil Hilborn

12. The Future

By: Neil Hilborn

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Neil Hilborn's highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find c… read more

Similar categories in Neil Hilborn's The Future book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"When I was little I broke both my ankles jumping off a roof because I was sure a cape would enable me to fly. My parents attributed this to my strong imagination. Last year my therapist called it a d…"

-Neil Hilborn, The Future

"I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill …"

-Neil Hilborn, The Future

Cover of If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry) by Blythe Baird

13. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

By: Blythe Baird

4.36

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

Cover of I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco

14. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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15. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

By: Brenna Twohy

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more

Similar categories in Brenna Twohy's Swallowtail (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."

-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

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16. Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

By: Ollie Schminkey

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schm… read more

Similar categories in Ollie Schminkey's Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"when i spell grief, i can never remember if the i or e comes first, so i spend each day autocorrecting my greif, my grief, greif, grief, greif, until i can finally figure out what the fuck it is i’m …"

-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

"i see an old man using a walker on the sidewalk, and my stomach aches for those 30 years my dad never got. if i die at the same age as my dad, my life is almost half up. i imagine him sitting at a pa…"

-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

17. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Drive Here and Devastate Me by Megan Falley

18. Drive Here and Devastate Me

By: Megan Falley

4.51

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Megan Falley's much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry shocks you with its whether through ex… read more

Similar categories in Megan Falley's Drive Here and Devastate Me book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Date & Time (Button Poetry) by Phil Kaye

19. Date & Time (Button Poetry)

By: Phil Kaye

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more

Similar categories in Phil Kaye's Date & Time (Button Poetry) book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
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20. Nothing Is Okay

By: Rachel Wiley

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Nothing Is Okay book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Socially Acceptable Breakdown by Patrick Roche

21. A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

By: Patrick Roche

4.26

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, m… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Roche's A Socially Acceptable Breakdown book and Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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Depression & Other Magic Tricks

Sabrina Benaim

4.27

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Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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4.26

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Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Andrea Gibson

3.65

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Take Me with You

Andrea Gibson

3.57

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