The Rumpus reviews The Robot Scientist’s Daughter and a Redmond reading with friends
- At February 28, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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I am so excited to announce my first “official” review for The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, up at The Rumpus, written by Mary McMyne:
http://therumpus.net/2015/02/the-robot-scientists-daughter-by-jeannine-hall-gailey/
It’s a really well-written review (can I admit it even brought tears to my eyes? it did!), so I am thankful to The Rumpus and to Mary for writing and publishing it! Here’s a little quote:
“She reminds the reader “that your atoms right now are smashing against/ the atoms of your chair. What is keeping you together?” In the end, these are the central concerns of Gailey’s newest collection, her most haunting and masterful book yet.”
(Did I mention you can buy a signed copy now of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter from me on my page by just clicking “Signed Copy?” It’s available now!)
I also want to do a quick writeup of a reading I went to last night by Kelli Agodon and Martha Silano at the RASP Old Schoolhouse. (See pic below of me hanging out with the girls after their reading…) I got there a little late, and was happy to see the place packed, and what was even more surprising to me, it was mostly people I knew. I felt more like a part of Redmond’s poetry community than I had even when I was Redmond’s Poet Laureate. Kelli and Martha did a great job with the reading, and it was fun catching up with a bunch of folks I hadn’t seen in a while.
As one of those weird lucky things that happens after readings, we stopped by the library to drop off a book, and I was amazed by the beautiful sight of the cherry trees in bloom in the parking lot, lit up by streetlights. So I snapped a picture. It was pretty magical. Magic poetry readings are the best poetry readings.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
