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Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey recently served as the Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She is the author of four books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers and The Robot Scientist's Daughter. Her poems have been featured on NPR's The Writer's... show more

Jeannine Hall Gailey recently served as the Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She is the author of four books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers and The Robot Scientist's Daughter. Her poems have been featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac and on Verse Daily; two were included in 2007's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She was awarded a 2007 and 2011 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry and a 2007 Washington State Artist Trust GAP grant. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner.
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Intensely Focused
Intensely Focused rated it 12 years ago
I didn't like this collection nearly as much as Becoming the Villainess. I liked individual poems, and the imagery of broken DNA/programming was interesting. But as a collection it felt far too repatative. I like the idea of poems based on fairytales, but I think there needed to be more diversity am...
Intensely Focused
Intensely Focused rated it 18 years ago
I don't read much poetry, but I enjoyed this collection. At times the themes grew a little repetitive (she looked at a couple of myths over and over again) but there was a very strong feminist element to the poems and I liked that. The poems about female comic book characters were especially good. ...
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