SEATTLE -- The Robot Scientist’s Daughter

by Jeannine Hall Gailey

“Gailey’s newest collection…[is] her most haunting and masterful book yet." —The Rumpus

“In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey charts the dangerous secrets in a nuclear family as well as a nuclear research facility. Her ecofeminist approach to the making of bombs celebrates our fragile natural world. Full of flowers and computers, this riveting poetry captures the undeniable compromises and complexities of our times.”

—Denise Duhamel

Book Release Reading and Reception: April 16, 7 PM. At the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA.

Book Description:

Dazzling in its descriptions of a natural world imperiled by the hidden dangers of our nuclear past, this book presents a girl in search of the secrets of survival. In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey creates for us a world of radioactive wasps, cesium in the sunflowers, and robotic daughters. She conjures the intricate menace of the nuclear family and nuclear history, juxtaposing surreal cyborgs, mad scientists from fifties horror flicks and languid scenes of rural childhood. Mining her experience growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the writer allows the stories of the creation of the first atomic bomb, the unintended consequences of scientific discovery, and building nests for birds in the crooks of maple trees to weave together a reality at once terrifying and beautiful. The Robot Scientist’s Daughter reveals the underside of the Manhattan Project from a personal angle, and charts a woman's—and America's—journey towards reinvention.

Publication Info:

March 1, 2015

Mayapple Press

82 pp.

Paperback US $15.95

ISBN-10: 1936419424

ISBN-13: 978-1936419425

For more information:

Mayapple Press
Judith Kerman (Publisher):

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Jeannine Hall Gailey, Author:

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@webbish6 Author bio:

Jeannine Hall Gailey recently served as the second 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, new in 2015 from Mayapple Press. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner.

Her web site is www.webbish6.com. Follow her on Twitter @webbish6.


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