Field Guide to the End of the World
{{Infobox book
| name = Field Guide to the End of the World
| image = Field_Guide_to_the_End_of_the_World,_book_cover,_medium.jpg
| caption = Cover of Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey
| author = Jeannine Hall Gailey
| cover_artist = Charli Barnes
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Poetry
| publisher = Moon City Press
| pub_date = September 1, 2016
| media_type = Print (Paperback)
| pages = 72 pp
| isbn = 978-0913785768
}}
Field Guide to the End of the World is a book of poetry that was written by Jeannine Hall Gailey, won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award, and was published in 2016 by Moon City Press. This collection, Gailey's fifth, "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."{{cite book|title=Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems|isbn=978-0913785768 |last1=Gailey |first1=Jeannine Hall |year=2016 }}
Awards
- Won the 2017 Elgin Award from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.{{cite web | title = 2017 Elgin Awards for books published in 2015 and 2016 | publisher = Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association | url=http://www.sfpoetry.com/el/17elgin.html | accessdate= 2017-09-23 }}
- Finalist for the Horror Writers Association 2016 Bram Stoker Awards.{{cite web | title = 2016 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot | date = 23 February 2017 | publisher = Horror Writers Association | url=http://horror.org/2016-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/ | accessdate= 2017-03-05 }}
- Won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award.{{cite web | title = Jeannine Hall Gailey wins the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award | publisher = Moon City Press | url=http://moon-city-press.com/2015/11/17/2015-poetry-award/ | accessdate= 2016-09-25 }}
Reviews
Critical reviews of Field Guide to the End of the World have appeared in the following literary publications:
- Entropy{{cite journal | last = Vorreyer | first = Donna| title = Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey | year = 2016 | journal = Entropy | url = http://entropymag.org/field-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world-by-jeannine-hall-gailey/ | accessdate = 2016-10-16 | quote = Gailey continues to show off her skill at mixing pop culture references with thoughtful and serious subjects. The reader gets zombies, teenage vampires, Martha Stewart, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Ina Garten, aliens, and fairy tales, but the poems are never shallow. }}
- Escape Into Life{{cite journal | last = Kirk | first = Kathleen | title = Field Guide to the End of the World | year = 2017 | journal = Escape into Life | url = http://www.escapeintolife.com/blog/field-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/ | accessdate = 2017-04-22 | quote = This Field Guide is a punch in the stomach and a whack upside the head if you needed one. It is a loud shifting of gears in the sky-blue Plymouth, impossible to ignore. }}
- New Orleans Review{{cite journal | last = Murray | first = Abby E. | title = Field Guide to the End of the World book review by Abby E. Murray | year = 2016 | journal = New Orleans Review | url = http://www.neworleansreview.org/field-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/ | accessdate = 2016-12-17 | quote = The poems are post-WWI French surrealism meets American zombie movie meets hospice terminology meets the exact weight of a love letter. Nothing is certain. }}
- Pedestal Magazine{{cite journal | last = Chan | first = Stephanie | title = Jeannine Hall Gailey's Field Guide to the End of the World, Reviewed by Stephanie Chan | year = 2016 | journal = Pedestal Magazine | url = http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/jeannine-hall-gaileys-field-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world-reviewed-by-stephanie-chan// | accessdate = 2017-03-23 | quote = Punctuated with a dry sense of humor, there is an achingly lonely quality to many of the poems as the characters examine their dreams, their pasts, their imagined futures. }}
- Rain Taxi{{cite journal | last = Liu | first = Sarah | title = Field Guide to the End of the World | year = 2017 | journal = Rain Taxi | quote = Gailey invites us to do with her poetry what we are not often asked to do: carry it with us into the world. }}
- The Rumpus{{cite journal | last = Wade| first = Julie Marie| title =
Both Companion and Guide: Jeannine Hall Gailey's Field Guide to the End of the World | year = 2017 | journal = The Rumpus | quote = There is such innovation in Gailey’s work, such commitment to resilience, a ceaseless sifting through rubble in search of precious stones. }}
- The Seattle Review of Books{{cite journal | last = Constant| first = Paul | title = ...and I feel fine | year = 2016 | journal = The Seattle Review of Books | url = http://www.seattlereviewofbooks.com/reviews/and-i-feel-fine/ | accessdate = 2016-10-14 | quote = Unlike most of us, she goes over that edge, into the uncertainty, and she brings things back for the rest of us. }}
- Star*Line{{cite journal | last = Severson | first = Diane | title = Speculative Poetry Book Reviews for books published in 2016 | journal = Star*Line | url = http://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/reviews/16reviews.html | accessdate = 2017-04-22 | quote = Gailey does not shy away from shedding light on unpleasant things; damage to the environment is a common theme among these poems; from a stand point of both the cause and the effect of an apocalypse. }}
External links
- [https://webbish6.com/books/field-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/ Official book page]