She Returns to the Floating World
Encyclopedia
She Returns to the Floating World is the title of a book of poetry that was written by Jeannine Hall Gailey
and published by Kitsune Books in 2011. This collection, Gailey's second, deals with feminine transformations in the personae
of characters from Japanese
folk tales, anime
, and manga
.
Poems from the book were featured in Verse Daily, and the haiku "august sky..." won an Honorable Mention in the 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2008).
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey is an American poet.She has written two notable books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess and She Returns to the Floating World...
and published by Kitsune Books in 2011. This collection, Gailey's second, deals with feminine transformations in the personae
Persona
A persona, in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask. The Latin word probably derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning, and that from the Greek πρόσωπον...
of characters from Japanese
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
folk tales, anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
, and manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
.
Poems from the book were featured in Verse Daily, and the haiku "august sky..." won an Honorable Mention in the 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2008).
Awards
- She Returns to the Floating World was a semifinalist in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards in the Poetry category.
- She Returns to the Floating World won a silver medal in the Florida Publisher's Association 2011 President's Book Award for Poetry.