We've All Seen Helena — Lip Manegio
We’ve All Seen Helena is such a comet. This bright, burning emo-punk poetry collection explores the complexities of finding your identity and placing your trust in a role model when you only know their surface. Lip Manegio navigates their journey to understanding queerness by summoning, dissecting and conversing with their personal icon, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance fame. Raw, visceral and unapologetically vulnerable books don’t come around often, so love this one while you can.
We’ve All Seen Helena is such a comet. This bright, burning emo-punk poetry collection explores the complexities of finding your identity and placing your trust in a role model when you only know their surface. Lip Manegio navigates their journey to understanding queerness by summoning, dissecting and conversing with their personal icon, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance fame. Raw, visceral and unapologetically vulnerable books don’t come around often, so love this one while you can.
We’ve All Seen Helena is such a comet. This bright, burning emo-punk poetry collection explores the complexities of finding your identity and placing your trust in a role model when you only know their surface. Lip Manegio navigates their journey to understanding queerness by summoning, dissecting and conversing with their personal icon, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance fame. Raw, visceral and unapologetically vulnerable books don’t come around often, so love this one while you can.
Lip Manegio is a poet, bookmaker, & dyke from New England. His work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Puerto del Sol, Gordon Square Review, Tin House, and been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. They serve as editor in chief at Ginger Bug Press & are the author of We’ve All Seen Helena. Find them at lipmanegio.com. Author photo courtesy of Paula Champagne.