Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey Blog Tour (Fall 2016)

Hello everyone, we’ve got a new tour filling up for Fall 2016: Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey, published by Moon City Press in September 2016.

Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award, 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. Pop-culture characters—from Martha Stewart and Wile E. Coyote to zombie strippers and teen vampires—deliver humorous but insightful commentary on survival and resilience through poems that span imagined scenarios that are not entirely beyond the realm of possibility. The characters face their apocalypses in numerous ways, from strapping on rollerblades and swearing to taking notes as barns burn on the horizon. At the end of the world, the most valuable resource is human connection—someone holding our hands, reminding us “we are miraculous.”

Advance Praise:

“Wry, heartsick and shot through with black humor (Martha Stewart’s ‘Guide to Apocalypse Living’ dispenses advice on ‘storing munitions in attractive wicker boxes’), these poems about transformation and extinction mournfully remind us via post-apocalypse postcards, notes and instructions, ‘we were not here first, we will not be here last.” —Matthea Harvey, author of If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?

About the Poet:

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as second poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of four previous books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, and The Robot Scientist’s Daughter. Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, and included in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

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Tour Schedule:

Sept. 19: Necromancy Never Pays (Review)
Sept. 27: Eva Lucia Reviews (Review)
Sept. 27: Peeking Between the Pages (Review)
Sept. 29: Chick With Books (Review)
Sept. 30: Suko’s Notebook (Review)
Oct. 11: 5 Minutes for Books (Review)
Oct. 14: Everything Distils Into Reading (Review)
Oct. 19: Readaholic Zone (Review)
Oct. 20: Tea Leaves (Review)
TBD: The Book Tree (Review)

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