Injecting Dreams Into Cows - Softcover

Randall, Jessy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597092304 ISBN 13: 9781597092302

Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2012

Synopsis

Jessy Randall's poems are smart, funny, weird, and friendly. She writes about robots, love, friendship, video games, Muppets, motherhood, Pippi Longstocking, and the peculiar seductiveness of old Fisher Price wooden people on Ebay. SheÆs partial to found poems, prose poems, and short poems—bite-sized mouthfuls of surprising lyricism. Sometimes sexy, often hilarious, strange and yet familiar, the poems in Injecting Dreams into Cows will leave you "gasping with delight and deliciousness."

About this title

About the Author:

Jessy Randall’s collection of poems A Day in Boyland was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her other books include a young adult novel, The Wandora Unit, about poetry nerds in high school, and a collection of collaborative poems, Interruptions, written with Daniel M. Shapiro. Randall’s poems have been hung from trees, made into rock songs by garage bands, used in library advertisements, and sold in gumball machines. Her writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Flurb, Many Mountains Moving, McSweeney’s, Mudfish, Opium, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, Sentence, West Wind, and Brain, Child. Randall writes regularly for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly about topics such as language in the Harry Potter series, rhyming reduplicative compounds, and the slang of Battlestar Galactica. She spent her childhood in and around Rochester, New York and now lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two children.

Review:

"['The Consultant' is] the best science poem you'll read this month. Poet Jessy Randall has a history of filling us with happiness by writing dreamy, occasionally silly, poems that touch on science and science fictional topics...." - Annalee Newitz, io9 (io9.com/jessy-randall/)

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1597092304
• ISBN 13: 9781597092302
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104