She Returns to the Floating World
{{short description|Book by Jeannine Hall Gailey}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = She Returns to the Floating World
| image = FloatingWorld.jpg
| caption =
| author = Jeannine Hall Gailey
| cover_artist = Rene Lynch
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Poetry
| publisher = Kitsune Books
| pub_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,{{cite web | title = Verse Daily: Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding
| publisher = Verse Daily | url = http://www.versedaily.org/2011/beforemywedding.shtml | access-date = 2011-07-28}} and the haiku "august sky..." won an Honorable Mention in the 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2008).{{cite web | title = The 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest | publisher = The Mainichi Daily News | url = http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/haiku/etc/archive/contest2008.html | access-date = 2011-07-28}}
Reviews
Critical reviews of She Returns to the Floating World have appeared in the following literary publications:
- Barn Owl Review{{cite journal | last = Barbour | first = Julie Brooks | title = Once I Believed the Stories Didn't Have Endings: A Review of Jeannine Hall Gailey's She Returns to the Floating World | year = 2011 | journal = Barn Owl Review | url = http://www.barnowlreview.com/reviews/gailey.html/ | access-date = 2011-11-25 | quote = With her collection She Returns to the Floating World, Jeannine Hall Gailey has created a masterpiece. I do not say this lightly.}}
- The California Journal of Poetics{{cite journal | last = Barnard | first = Gina | title = She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey | year = 2011 | journal = The California Journal of Poetics | url = http://www.californiapoetics.org/reviews/1402/she-returns-to-the-floating-world-by-jeannine-hall-gailey/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110911150016/http://www.californiapoetics.org/reviews/1402/she-returns-to-the-floating-world-by-jeannine-hall-gailey | url-status = usurped | archive-date = September 11, 2011 | access-date = 2011-07-28 | quote = What echoes throughout Gailey’s work is the understanding and the desire to create alternate worlds when reality is chaotic.}}
- Mid-American Review{{cite journal | year = 2012 | journal = Mid-American Review | volume = 32 |pages = 217–8}}
- Midwest Book Review{{cite journal | title = Small Press Bookwatch | year = 2011 | journal = Midwest Book Review | url = http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/oct_11.htm#Poetry | access-date = 2011-10-07 | quote ='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.}}
- New Madrid Journal{{cite journal | last = Cutler | first = Christine | title = Book Review: She Returns to the Floating World | year = 2012 | journal = New Madrid Journal | url = http://www.newmadridjournal.org/current_issue/documents/nmw12_reviews.pdf | access-date = 2012-02-05 | quote ='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.}}
- The Rumpus{{cite journal | last = Carty | first = Jessie | title = Their Eyes Like Geodes | year = 2011 | journal = The Rumpus | url = http://therumpus.net/2011/07/their-eyes-like-geodes/ | access-date = 2011-07-28 | quote = 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.}}
- Southern Humanities Review{{cite journal | last = Alvarez | first = Celia Lisset | year = 2012 | journal = Southern Humanities Review | volume = 46 |issue = 1 |pages = 96–9 | publisher = Auburn University}}
- The US Review of Books{{cite journal | title = The Eric Hoffer Award for Books | year = 2012 | journal = The US Review of Books | url = http://www.theusreview.com/USRhoffer.html#poetry | access-date = 2012-06-25 | quote = Gailey weaves classic themes of transformation, self-knowledge, and natural beauty into a fantastical multi-colored world of fairy tales, animation and video games.}}
- Web Del Sol Review of Books{{cite journal | last = Barnard | first = Gina | title = Rebirth in a Different Tongue: Japanese Fairy-tales in American Verse | year = 2012 | journal = Web del Sol Review of Books | url = http://wdsreviewofbooks.webdelsol.com/HallGailey1.htm | access-date = 2012-01-12 | quote = 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.' }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.webbish6.com/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Web site]