Field Guide to the End of the World
 Cover of Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey | |
| Author | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Charli Barnes |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Moon City Press |
Publication date | September 1, 2016 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 72 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0913785768 |
Field Guide to the End of the World is a book of poetry that was written by Jeannine Hall Gailey, won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award, and was published in 2016 by Moon City Press. This collection, Gailey's fifth, "delivers a whimsical look at our culture’s obsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflection on our resources in the face of disasters both large and small, personal and public."[1]
Awards
[edit]- Won the 2017 Elgin Award from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.[2]
- Finalist for the Horror Writers Association 2016 Bram Stoker Awards.[3]
- Won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award.[4]
Reviews
[edit]Critical reviews of Field Guide to the End of the World have appeared in the following literary publications:
- Entropy[5]
- Escape Into Life[6]
- New Orleans Review[7]
- Pedestal Magazine[8]
- Rain Taxi[9]
- The Rumpus[10]
- The Seattle Review of Books[11]
- Star*Line[12]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gailey, Jeannine Hall (2016). Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems. ISBN 978-0913785768.
- ^ "2017 Elgin Awards for books published in 2015 and 2016". Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
- ^ "2016 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot". Horror Writers Association. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
- ^ "Jeannine Hall Gailey wins the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award". Moon City Press. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ Vorreyer, Donna (2016). "Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey". Entropy. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
Gailey continues to show off her skill at mixing pop culture references with thoughtful and serious subjects. The reader gets zombies, teenage vampires, Martha Stewart, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Ina Garten, aliens, and fairy tales, but the poems are never shallow.
- ^ Kirk, Kathleen (2017). "Field Guide to the End of the World". Escape into Life. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
This Field Guide is a punch in the stomach and a whack upside the head if you needed one. It is a loud shifting of gears in the sky-blue Plymouth, impossible to ignore.
- ^ Murray, Abby E. (2016). "Field Guide to the End of the World book review by Abby E. Murray". New Orleans Review. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
The poems are post-WWI French surrealism meets American zombie movie meets hospice terminology meets the exact weight of a love letter. Nothing is certain.
- ^ Chan, Stephanie (2016). "Jeannine Hall Gailey's Field Guide to the End of the World, Reviewed by Stephanie Chan". Pedestal Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
Punctuated with a dry sense of humor, there is an achingly lonely quality to many of the poems as the characters examine their dreams, their pasts, their imagined futures.
- ^ Liu, Sarah (2017). "Field Guide to the End of the World". Rain Taxi.
Gailey invites us to do with her poetry what we are not often asked to do: carry it with us into the world.
- ^ Wade, Julie Marie (2017). "Both Companion and Guide: Jeannine Hall Gailey's Field Guide to the End of the World". The Rumpus.
There is such innovation in Gailey's work, such commitment to resilience, a ceaseless sifting through rubble in search of precious stones.
- ^ Constant, Paul (2016). "...and I feel fine". The Seattle Review of Books. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
Unlike most of us, she goes over that edge, into the uncertainty, and she brings things back for the rest of us.
- ^ Severson, Diane. "Speculative Poetry Book Reviews for books published in 2016". Star*Line. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
Gailey does not shy away from shedding light on unpleasant things; damage to the environment is a common theme among these poems; from a stand point of both the cause and the effect of an apocalypse.
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