Flare, Corona

Flare, Corona by Jeannine Hall Gailey is a self-portrait of how we prevail and persevere through illness and natural disaster, juxtaposing odd solar and weather events with medical disasters. It features harbingers of calamity, but at the center is Gailey's attempts to navigate a fraught medical system, dealing with challenging medical revelations. Gailey is incandescent and tender-hearted, teaching us how to live and survive.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited

Against a backdrop of solar weather events and an ever-evolving pandemic, Jeannine Hall Gailey's Flare, Corona paints a poignant self-portrait of the resilient ways in which we navigate illness and natural disasters. Gailey skillfully juxtaposes odd solar and weather phenomena with the medical challenges she faces within her own mind and body. We follow her through a false-alarm terminal cancer diagnosis, a real diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, and ultimately the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The solar flare and corona of an eclipse become the neural lesions in her own personal "flare," which she explores with both honesty and humor. While the collection features harbingers of calamity, including visits from wolves, blood moons, apocalypses, and plagues, at its core lies the poet's unwavering determination to navigate a complex medical system, dealing with a series of challenging medical revelations, some of which are illusions and others that are all too real.

In Flare, Corona, Jeannine Hall Gailey is incandescent and tender-hearted, gracefully insistent on teaching us all the ways in which we can live, all the ways in which we can refuse to do anything but to brilliantly and stubbornly survive.

Weight: 216g
Dimension: 177 x 228 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781950774920