SILENT POETRY & NOISY W(H)INE

SILENCES: The Autobiography of Loss. The 265-page manuscript collects works written over the past 7 years or so. But I didn't come up with the appropriate book arc for them until last week. Took a couple of days to organize, and there was a brand-spankin' new manuscript on Friday.

I submitted it Saturday.

It got accepted yesterday (Monday).

To put together (not write, but put together) a book, submit it, and get it accepted for publication in three days.

Even I am amazed at Moiself.

But pleased. And not just because I got a book accepted. But because I am getting closer to my goal as a poet -- SILENCES.

And along that path, here are my latest-relished read and imbibed lists -- it's interesting how I want to write silence and yet I can be quite slurpily-noisy drinking that wine:

BOOKS:
THE ALLEGREZA FICCIONE, novella with poems by Mark Young

BOYS, A-Z: A Primer, poems and visual art by Dan Waber

YUMMY ZEST, poem by Jukka Pekka Kervinen

THE TAR PIT DIATOMS, poems by Sandra Simonds

EXERTIONS, poems by Scott Glassman

TO DELITE AND INSTRUCT, poems by Catherine Daly

DOVEY & ME, poems by Lynn Strongin

EVACUATION ROUTES: A USER'S GUIDE, poems by A.L. Nielsen

POSTCARD MEMOIRS (1-100), prose poems by Alex Gildzen

GILDZEN AT 50, tribute to Alex Gildzen

FOX, poems by Adrienne Rich

HEART ON A TRIPOD, poems by Kaia Sand

CASE SENSITIVE, poems by Kate Greenstreet

OUT OF WEDLOCK, poems by Jennifer Reimer & Craig Perez

BLUE OUTLINE: After Hiroshige, poems by Craig Perez

CROP, poems by Yedda Morrison

HOMELESS AT HOME, poems by Gloria Frym

VAUDEVILLE, poems by Alyssa Wolf

TEN THOUSAND SORROWS: THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF A KOREAN WAR ORPHAN, memoir by Elizabeth Kim

THE STATIONS OF SOLITUDE, memoir/meditation by Alice Koller

MAKING LOVE TO THE MINOR POETS OF CHICAGO, novel by James Conrad

ALL SHE EVER WANTED, novel by Lynn Austin

A DOG'S LIFE, novel by Peter Mayle

THIS HEAVY SILENCE, novel by Nicole Mazzarella

WINES:
1996 Greenock Creek Creek Block Shiraz
1982 Chateau Petit Villages (Pomerol)
2001 Kistler Pinot Noir Hirsch Vineyard
1990 Moccagatta Bric Balin Barbaresco
1988 Brunello di Montalcino Sanetti Livio
2004 Chianti Classico Roberto Stucchi Coltibuono
2004 Ramey claret
1991 Ravenswood Pickberry