Don't Let Them See Me Like This

by Jasmine Gibson

In Don't Let Them See Me Like This, Jasmine Gibson explores myriad intersectional identities in relation to The State, disease, love, sex, failure, and triumph. Speaking to those who feel disillusioned by both radical and banal spaces and inspired/informed by moments of political crisis: Hurricane Katrina, The Jena Six, the extrajudicial executions of Black people, and the periods of insurgency that erupted in response, this book acts as a synthesis of political life and poetic form.

Genres: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Politics

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2018

Reviews

[Madeleine · Rating 5 out of 5]

the best poetry i've read in so long! someone recommended this to me in a chance encounter, want to find them and thank them. sexy, difficult, captivating, theorizes ways of writing through the world and reckoning with racist capitalist wreckage, will be re-reading, learning about how to be and how to write from this for a long while <3

[Ray Carroll · Rating 5 out of 5]

This poetry drips off the page, pools in your lap. It's sticky and fragrant and you don't want to wash it off, don't think you could scrub your skin clean anyway.

[Manuel Abreu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some of the best poetry

[Karla Strand · Rating 4 out of 5]

Searing, seething, sexy, scarring. Intense and amazing.

[Beatrix Delcarmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

“the rich steal the future as if it were magic”

[baby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gibson's work is painful and she deals with tragedy, loss, and the death march of white supremacy with a poignant anger, but not in the way of the confession which she says "is the enemy/it is the stand in for a boss/who owns you down to excretions from/battered, bruised, castrated parts/it is a demand to submit your soul to a property owner." Yet still these pages are drenched with blood, her words are cutting.

This is the most impactful collections of poetry I have read in a long time. These are the types of poems you remember when you step off the sidewalk and into the street.

[BecSoBookish · Rating 4 out of 5]

So so good.