Black Friday Poetry Shopping List!
- At November 28, 2014
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a great time with our little celebration with local family and a ton of delicious food, and a lot to be thankful for. So onto the next holiday…
Black Friday Poetry Shopping List!
Special: All three of my books for $32 including shipping! That’s Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, and Unexplained Fevers for your favorite feminist/fairy tale/Japanese mythology-fan poetry lovers! Directly from me! And I can sign them to whomever you want! I will probably include some fun swag! Because holidays! Here’s a Paypal button to do it!
OK, this is a not-all inclusive list for this year’s recommendations. There are so many books I loved this year…so this is really just a short list of winners and crowd-pleasers!
1. Support your local small press. This year I’d like to feature Two Sylvias Press, the Kingston-based publisher of the second edition of She Returns to the Floating World, run by superpoets Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy. I recommend two gifts in particular: Natasha K. Moni’s book The Cardiologist’s Daughter, for your friends with interests in the medical field and poetry, and Fire on Her Tongue, an anthology of contemporary poetry by women, really a good gift for any poetry lover. (Related: check out Kelli’s new release this year, Hourglass Museum. You can order a signed copy from her here!)
2. For your friend who just went through a divorce: Blowout by Denise Duhamel. Real, raw, funny, touching.
3. Two books I reviewed this last year that I highly recommend: Jericho Brown’s The New Testament (link goes to Copper Canyon’s ordering page) and Matthea Harvey’s If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (link goes to Graywolf Press’s ordering page.) Read the review of Matthea’s book here, and Jericho’s book here.)
4. For your horror-fan friend? Ellen Datlow’s anthology (OK, this one is mostly fiction, but it does include a poem or two) The Best Horror of the Year Volume 6.
5. This isn’t a purchase, but a donation idea – throughout the recent troubles at Ferguson in St. Louis, The Ferguson Library stayed open, provided services (particularly to children whose schools were closed) and generally acted in a heroic manner. I’m always for library donations, but this year, maybe think of donating to Ferguson Library?
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.
