Jellyfish by Andrea Gibson

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This video by Daizy Zhou is pretty effective, I thought — but then, so is the original video on YouTube of the poet herself, from which she took the reading:

In fact, this may be one of the most gorgeous spoken-word videos I’ve seen, both for the floating-seed imagery and for the background of Swainson’s thrush song. Gibson has what appears to be a thrush on the footer of her website, which makes me like her right away.

3 Comments

  1. Reply
    emily 20 November, 2016

    what happened to this video??? v upset

    • Reply
      Dave Bonta 22 November, 2016

      What happened to which video? They’re both online now. Perhaps Vimeo was having some kind of hiccup in service.

  2. Reply
    Patrick Staight 10 March, 2021

    Andrea doesn’t identify as a man or a women. Using they/them pronouns when referring to Andrea can be tricky and not our usual English but I can refer you to a very intense poem about suicide if you have questions about how gender identity has affected Andrea.

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