A Rebellion of Care, David Gate
A Rebellion of Care, David Gate
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A Rebellion of Care
Poems and Essays

Author: David Gate

Narrator: David Gate

Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2025

Synopsis

A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive loneliness

yes, everyone is struggling right now
so please be gracious

be kind & patient, but subvert
every institution that relies on our suffering

Something isn’t right. Every generation thinks that, but we have more cause than most. The way our society has been constructed is just not good for our bodies, our minds, or our hearts. What possible chance do our souls have?

In his debut collection, popular Instagram poet David Gate inspires us to rally for what makes life worth living: creating art as a form of care, living beyond consumer impulse, loving our neighbors (even the odd ones), and more. With his signature snark, humor, and billowing hope, Gate invites readers to ponder the complexities of self, community, love, and resilience.

Rejecting the notion that despair and positivity are our only available responses, Gate urges readers to foster deep friendships that challenge social orders and embrace questions of meaning and purpose. For, in his words, “Saying something true in a world awash with lies is the first act of rebellion.”

About The Author

David Gate grew up in London before making his way to Belfast, Northern Ireland and Jacksonville, Florida. He now lives in the ancient Appalachian mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where he writes, mills flour, and tends to a one-acre homestead with his partner and children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by The Bookish Elf on July 19, 2025

In an era where poetry often retreats into academic isolation or Instagram-friendly platitudes, David Gate emerges with something altogether more dangerous: a collection that dares to make poetry matter. A Rebellion of Care is Gate's debut offering, a sprawling manifesto disguised as verse that chal......more

Goodreads review by Rachel | All the RAD Reads on August 26, 2025

i have long looooved david gate's poetry on instagram, and was so thrilled to read his first print collection of work. first of all, the cover? stunning. truly art. the poems are a collection of david's best, many familiar to me from following him online for so long. his way of writing is very hones......more

Goodreads review by Maddie on April 25, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and Converhent Books for providing me the ARC. Holy shit. Easily one of my favorite books of the year and one of my favorite poetry books of all time. This was so beautiful, relatable, existential, cathartic, just AGH. As a queer woman, hearing a Christian cis-man advocate for us?......more

Goodreads review by Summer Connell on August 05, 2025

3.5 - I enjoyed this collection! It aligned with a lot of my own beliefs and it was nice to be able to relate to poetry on that level. I think my favorite parts of this collection were the intro passages to each section. They very eloquently explained what the section would be about and the authors......more

Goodreads review by Bee on July 30, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and Convergent Books for the ARC :) This is my first time reading David Gate's poetry and it reminded me of the first time I discovered the Instagram poetry community. I fell in love with poetry all over again, so thank you for that David. What I enjoyed about "A Rebellion of C......more

Quotes

“Where policy and programming and posturing fall short, poetry delivers. Art is going to save us, and David Gate has given us the most gorgeous book of words that matter. I can’t even pick my favorite poem, but this line is a contender: ‘Though the system takes all it can from our tired bodies . . . it will never, not ever, ransack our hallelujahs.’ Come for the language, stay for the hope. What a gift. We need it right now.”—Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author and host of the For the Love Podcast

“This book invites you to be radicalized by tenderness . . . a soulful refuge for both the cynic and the softy.”—Lyndsay Rush, USA Today bestselling author of A Bit Much

“A Rebellion of Care is audacious, generous, and loaded with love. To read David’s poetry is to be cracked wide open for the sake of beauty, wonder, and, most critically, each other. I haven’t been this moved by a book in a long time.”—Kendra Adachi, New York Times bestselling author of The PLAN and The Lazy Genius Way

“Caution: this book contains absurd amounts of grace and beauty. Side effects may include tears, smiles, and a renewed belief in our shared humanity.”—Nora McInerny, bestselling author and host of the Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast

“Good gracious, this book made me so glad to be alive in this beautiful tragedy of a world. A Rebellion of Care is a bracing pull-no-punches invitation to the disruption of joy, the tender work of healing, the demand of justice, and the stubborn ordinary holiness of being a person, despite all evidence to the contrary.”—Sarah Bessey, bestselling author of Field Notes for the Wilderness

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