MANY MANY HATS COZ I PLUCK THOSE ANGELS' WINGS TO IRRITATE THEM AS WELL AS TO GARNER THE LOVELIEST PLUMES TO WAVE OVER MOI HEAD!

The year rushes to its ends with Moi over-hatted with projects! The latest is

Meritage Press' Sixth Annual Poetry Contest for Filipino poets -- click here for more information.

Reminder that you have until Nov. 30 for Bruna Mori's and Dec. 15 for Michelle Bautista's Special Pre-Release Offers for their inaugural books!

I am busily formatting the next issue of Galatea Resurrects with its record number of new reviews -- it should come out next week!

And here's the latest results of what I do in my spare time: drink books and read wine:

BOOKS:
DERIVE by Bruna Mori, with paintings by Matthew Kinney

AMERICAN KUNDIMAN, poems by Patrick Rosal

TEAHOUSE OF THE ALMIGHTY, poems by Patricia Smith

SHE'S MY BEST FRIEND, poems by Jim Behrle

PARADISO DIASPORA, poems by John Yau

THE PICTURES, poems by Max Winter

NEAR THE OCEAN, poems by Robert Lowell

WATCHWORD, poems by William Fuller

ELAPSING SPEEDWAY ORGANISM, poems by Bruce Covey

SIGNED EVEN AS A WAITING, poem by Paul Klinger

BLUE COLONIAL, poems by David Roderick

WHAT FEEDS US, poems by Diane Lockward

YOU BEING YOU BY PROXY, poems by Justin Marks

CHANCE, poems by Daniel Becker

MORNING NEWS, poems by Ana Bozicevic-Bowling

MILK BOWL MOON OVER ST. LOUIS, poems by David E. Patton

THE WEDDING DRESS: MEDITATIONS ON WORD AND LIFE by Fanny Howe

NIGHT, memoir by Elie Wiesel

NATIVE IN A STRANGE LAND: TRIALS & TREMORS, memoir-ish journalism & poetry by Wanda Coleman

WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD TIME, correspondences by Bill Berkson and Bernadette Mayer

THE WORKING POOR: INVISIBLE IN AMERICA, investigative journalism by David K. Shipler

A WALK ACROSS AMERICA, memoir by Peter Jenkins

DOGGY STYLE, novel by Jane May

DIGGING OUT, novel by Katherine Leiner

THE BOOKSHOP, novel by Penelope Fitzgerald

DARK HARBOR, novel by David Hosp


WINES:
[1998 Eiswein]
1998 Fox Creek Grenache Shiraz
1997 Produttori de Barbaresco
2002 Colle Picchioni Vigna del Vassalo
2000 Faro Palari
2001 Solengo Argiano
1990 Krug from a Magnum
1990 Krug from a Magnum.
1992 Domaine Leflaive Batard Montrachet
1992 Comte de Lafon Meursault Perrieres
1990 DRC La Tache
1959 Leroy (sic) Grands Echezeaux
1988 Guigal Cote Rotie La Mouline
1968 Vega Sicilia Unico
1961 Chateau Haut Brion
1959 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild
1971 C. Gonterno Barolo Monfortino
1967 Chateau d'Yquem
Freixnenet Cava Cordon Negro
2003 Gaja Ca' Marcanda
2004 Montes Alfa Cabernet
2004 Teofolio Reyes Tomiz
2001 Torres Gran Coronas Cabernet
1989 Barolo Clerico Ciabot Mentin Ginestra
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
THANKSGIVING WINE: 1993 Beaux Freres pinot noir (magnum, which is good as the cork was nearly shot so we drank it just in time; may not have lasted if it had been smaller bottle?)