All posts by Jeannine Hall Gailey

January 20th, 2012

A Busted Advent Calendar

The Weary World Rejoices has its unadorned moments of grief, punctuated by moments of energetic wit and intelligent levity. …more

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October 7th, 2011

A Mark of the Naive

Woodnote is a layered history, both natural and personal, that is ultimately about how we identify and describe what we encounter in the world, and how we identify ourselves inside that world. …more

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July 20th, 2011

Even More Taboo Than Love

C. Dale Young uses this third book to address injustices, the divisions caused by pain, prejudice, and a fractured spirit. …more

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March 23rd, 2011

You May Say Fist, You May Say Teeth

The unsentimental and honest display of Levin’s attitudes towards loss – her own losses as well the ways that others grieve their lost loved ones – is both moving and strangely distancing, as if by holding her emotions to the cold light of language itself the writer might obliterate them. …more

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September 15th, 2010

Two Threads

Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems is best appreciated not for its message or its drama, but for its expert way at guiding a reader through the writer’s lively imagination. …more

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June 30th, 2010

Time Loops, Child Molesters, and Sparkly Tube Tops

McGlynn’s book follows an almost fairy-tale-type logic – the unknowing past-self of the narrator plays the part of the last wife of Bluebeard, searching out the hidden rooms, with the watching future-self unable to keep her from finding the closet of severed women’s body parts. …more

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Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006) and She Returns to The Floating World (Kitsune Books, 2011.) Poems from the book were featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily; two were included in 2007’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She volunteers with Crab Creek Review and teaches at National University’s MFA program.

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