She Returns to the Floating World
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| Author | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
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| Cover artist | Rene Lynch |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Kitsune Books |
Publication date | July 1, 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 132 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-9827409-2-7 |
She Returns to the Floating World is a book of poetry that was written by Jeannine Hall Gailey and published by Kitsune Books in 2011. This collection, Gailey's second, deals with feminine transformations in the personae of characters from Japanese folk tales, anime, and manga.
Poems from the book were featured in Verse Daily,[1] and the haiku "august sky..." won an Honorable Mention in the 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2008).[2]
Reviews[edit]
Critical reviews of She Returns to the Floating World have appeared in the following literary publications:
- Barn Owl Review[3]
- The California Journal of Poetics[4]
- Mid-American Review[5]
- Midwest Book Review[6]
- New Madrid Journal[7]
- The Rumpus[8]
- Southern Humanities Review[9]
- The US Review of Books[10]
- Web Del Sol Review of Books[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Verse Daily: Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding". Verse Daily. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ "The 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest". The Mainichi Daily News. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ Barbour, Julie Brooks (2011). "Once I Believed the Stories Didn't Have Endings: A Review of Jeannine Hall Gailey's She Returns to the Floating World". Barn Owl Review. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
With her collection She Returns to the Floating World, Jeannine Hall Gailey has created a masterpiece. I do not say this lightly.
- ^ Barnard, Gina (2011). "She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey". The California Journal of Poetics. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
What echoes throughout Gailey's work is the understanding and the desire to create alternate worlds when reality is chaotic.
- ^ Mid-American Review. 32: 217–8. 2012.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Small Press Bookwatch". Midwest Book Review. 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
'She Returns to the Floating World' brings forth an unusual blend of influence and culture to poetry of a woman of the twentieth century who seen much and produces a product of it all.
- ^ Cutler, Christine (2012). "Book Review: She Returns to the Floating World" (PDF). New Madrid Journal. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
'She Returns to the Floating World' is a well-crafted and delightful collection of poems that will take readers on a journey with Gailey beyond the chaos of the modern world into the potential of the future.
- ^ Carty, Jessie (2011). "Their Eyes Like Geodes". The Rumpus. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
In She Returns to the Floating World, Gailey utilizes anime and other aspects of Japanese culture, such as its folklore and attitudes following The Bomb, as she puzzles through how to define she.
- ^ Alvarez, Celia Lisset (2012). Southern Humanities Review. 46 (1). Auburn University: 96–9.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "The Eric Hoffer Award for Books". The US Review of Books. 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
Gailey weaves classic themes of transformation, self-knowledge, and natural beauty into a fantastical multi-colored world of fairy tales, animation and video games.
- ^ Barnard, Gina (2012). "Rebirth in a Different Tongue: Japanese Fairy-tales in American Verse". Web del Sol Review of Books. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
With vivid sensory detail, Gailey invites us into the Fox-wife's world with descriptions such as, the 'smell of smashed leaves underfoot,' 'the curl beneath the bedsheets,' and 'our noses were flames in the forest. The light of torn paper lanterns is never true, the moonlight uneven.'