MYSTERY POPCORN AND OTHER RELISHES

I swoon over Juliana Spahr's mind and poems, so what a relief (& how amusing!) to hear her relaxation-ist reading in the past has included romance novels. It makes me feel less weird about using the genre as brain popcorn reading. Recently, however, I've relied on the old standby of murder- and/or spy-mysteries. I've also been on an inexplicable spree of reading historical novels related to the Midwest and Western Frontiers -- inexplicable! I wanna say this topic is so not me...but then I realized that in poetry I'm whoever...! Anyway, here's latest list of recently-relished w(h)ines:

BOOKS:
OTOLITHS, ISSUE FOUR, PART ONE,Ed. by Mark Young

THE LIGHT'S AGITATION, poems by Robert Van Vliet

FORTY-FIVE, poems by Frieda Hughes

WOOROLOO, poems by Frieda Hughes

LIT, poems by Ron Silliman

BLIND DATE WITH CAVAFY, poems by Steve Fellner

ESCAPING OVER TREES, poems by Derek Motion

THERE ARE WORDS, poems by Burt Kimmelman

50-50, poems by Pam Brown

TEXT THING, poems by Pam Brown

JOHANNA POEMS by Ben Mazer

GREEN BLOSSOMS, poetics and poems by Marjorie Light

THE VERY BEST OF SOME MISPLACED JOAN OF ARC, poetics and poems by Marjorie Light

THE LAST CIGARETTE: THE NEW & COLLECTED POEMS OF R.M. ENGELHARDT

COAST OF DREAMS: CALIFORNIA ON THE EDGE, 1990-2003, investigative journalism by Kevin Starr

THESE IS MY WORDS: THE DIARY OF SARAH AGNES PRINE 1881-1901, ARIZONA TERRITORIES, novel by Nancy E. Turner

THE RIDERS, novel by Tim Winton

ALBATROSS, novel by Evelyn Anthony

4th OF JULY, novel by James Patterson

DIRTY BLONDE, novel by Lisa Scottoline

INDELIBLE, novel by Kevin Slaughter

CONSENT TO KILL, novel by Vince Flynn

ANGELS FALL, novel by Nora Roberts

WINES:
2005 Voss Vineyards sauvignon blanc Rutherford N.V.
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
2005 Peter Michael L'Apres-Midi
1990 Terrabianca Campaccio
2005 Greenbank Sangiovese
1993 Ravenswood Monte Rosso zinfandel Sonoma Valley
2003 Dutch Henry Mt. Veeder pinot noir
1994 Judds Hill cabernet N.V.