Field Guide to the End of the World
Appearance
Author | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
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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
- Won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award.[2]
Reviews
Critical reviews of Field Guide to the End of the World have appeared in the following literary publications:
References
- ^ "Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.