- At March 16, 2005
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Well, the latest blog chain thing is called the “The Stick” and supervillainess/new mother Reb L. has sent it to me.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (because one good futuristic dystopia deserves another)
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Does Darth Vader count? At 6, that was my first crush.
The last book you bought is: Carol Ann Duffy The World’s Wife
The last book you read: The Poet’s Companion by Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio
What are you currently reading? Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
The Bible, King James Version
Medical Botany, Walter Lewis and Memory Elvin-Lewis
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Julius Ceasar by Shakespeare
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why? Because these three fabulous poets have yet to be whacked with “the stick.”
Kelli Agodon
Deborah Ager
Peter Pereira
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.
Peter
Jeannine: Darth Vader? I mean the voice is hot; but that mask? Eeeesh. LOL.
See my blog for my stick answers. It’s like a watered down peyote-laced version of “the Actor’s Studio” isn’t it?
jeannine
Dear Peter, Sorry to double-whack you, by the way – didn’t see that C.Dale had already given you the stick! (Does that sound faintly risque?) Yes, it does remind me of the actor’s studio!
PS Did you know you could actually visit Darth Vader’s mask in the Sci-Fi museum at EMP? Why do I know that? Because I have already visited Darth Vader’s mask!