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Andrea Gibson Refused to ‘Battle’ Cancer
When Gibson died on Monday, at age 49, those closest to the poet consoled mourning fans by sharing some of Gibson’s last words: “I fucking loved my life.” Accepting their illness and their mortality had transformed Gibson. “You tap into the brevity of something,” they’d told Freethink, “and all of a sudden everything becomes more special.”
As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...
I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.
Iwasnever formally introduced to Andrea Gibson’s poetry. They just felt like kin from the beginning, like a queer cousin I always knew. Gibson — a queer poet, activist and performance artist who ...
Gibson was an artist and activist, whose spoken word poetry captivated millions and defied the hyperindividualism that ...
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