Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems

Gailey, Jeannine Hall

ISBN 10: 0913785768 / ISBN 13: 9780913785768

Published by Moon City Press, 2016

About this Item

Signed by author on title page. Covers a bit worn along the edges with creasing to back cover. Text is clean and the binding is sound.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems
• Publisher: Moon City Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913785768
• ISBN 13: 9780913785768
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

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.”

About the Author

Jeannine Hall Gaileyserved 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.