Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey
In this splendidly entertaining debut, Jeannine Hall Gailey offers us a world both familiar and magical-filled with fairytale and mythology characters that are our own bedfellows-we wake up with Philomel and argue with Ophelia while half-listening to a Snow Queen, amidst Spy Girls, Amazons and Mongolian Cows. The wild and seductive energy in this collection never lets one put the book down. (In fact, any one who opens the collection in the bookstore and reads such poems as The Conversation and Job Requirements: A Supervillain's Advice will want to buy the book ) For her delivery is heart-breaking and refreshing, so the poems seduce us with the sadness, glory and entertainment of our very own days. Propelled by Jeannine Hall Gailey's alert, sensuous, and musical gifts, the mythology becomes all our own. -Ilya Kaminsky, author of the award-winning Dancing in Odessa
Jeannine Hall Gailey is the Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of three books of poetry, She Returns to the Floating World, a finalist for the 2012 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and a winner of a Florida Publishers Association Presidential Award for Poetry, and Becoming the Villainess, which was published by Steel Toe Books in 2006. Her third book, Unexplained Fevers, was published by New Binary Press in 2013. She has a B.S. in Biology and an M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati, as well as an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Her poems have been featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac and on Verse Daily; two were included inThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. In 2007 she received a Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant and in 2007 and 2011 a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She volunteers as an editorial consultant for Crab Creek Review, writes book reviews, and teaches at National University's MFA Program.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780974326436 |
| ISBN 10 | 0974326437 |
| Title | Becoming the Villainess |
| Author | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Steel Toe Books |
| Year published | 2006-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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