RECOMMENDED: BERT MEYERS!...& MORE!

I've written here before about deliberately looking for poets' COLLECTEDS or thick SELECTEDS because I wanted to glean some idea of a poet's work not possible by simply looking at several individual poems. Subject to time, I look for these COLLECTEDS/SELECTEDS regardless of the poet's identity. What this occasionally allows is the discovery of a poet who come to interest me in ways that reading a few poems might not. And it's a delight to discover recently the poet Bert Meyers -- I'd never heard of or read his poems before, but his COLLECTEDS arrived in the house as a review copy for Galatea Resurrects. Since it was a COLLECTED, I read Meyers right away and, yep, kudos to University of New Mexico Press for bringing out this book -- it is a lovely showcase of a poet who should be more read.

Speaking of COLLECTEDS/SELECTEDS, I'm glad the SELECTED I edited on Jose Garcia Villa made Ivy's "must read" list (and one of moi-ine!). Thanks Ivy!

Here's my latest list of relished w(h)ines that I post about every other week:

BOOKS:
E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews, Curated by Tom Beckett

IN A DYBBUK'S RAINCOAT: COLLECTED POEMS by Bert Meyers

PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION, poems by Susan Briante

MONSTER ZERO, poems by Jay Snodgrass

FLOWERS OF BAD: A FALSE TRANSLATION OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE'S LES FLEURS DU MAL by David Cameron

BEING FRIDA KAHLO, poems by Jim McCrary

TAXIDANCING, poems by Paul Pines

HATE, poems by Mark Salerno

METHOD, poems by Mark Salerno

SO ONE COULD HAVE, poems by Mark Salerno

AFFECTION FOR THE UNKNOWABLE, poems by Len Anderson

LETTERS TO A YOUNG ARTIST, Ed. by Peter Nesbett, Shelly Bacroft & Sarah Andress

POET'S BOOKSHELF: CONTEMPORARY POETS ON BOOKS THAT SHAPED THEIR ART, Ed. by Peter Davis

THE ROAD WASHES OUT IN SPRING: A POET'S MEMOIR OF LIVING OFF THE GRID by Baron Wormser

THE COUNTRY UNDER MY SKIN: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND WAR by Gioconda Belli

WESTWARD THE DREAM, novel by Frances Marion

EXECUTIVE POWER, novel by Vince Flynn

SEPARATION OF POWER, novel by Vince Flynn

THE THIRD OPTION, novel by Vince Flynn

TERM LIMITS, novel by Vince Flynn

TRANSFER OF POWER, novel by Vince Flynn

MEMORIAL DAY, novel by Vince Flynn

ACT OF TREASON, novel by Vince Flynn

THE DEVIL'S ALTERNATIVE, novel by Frederick Forsyth

MATILDA'S LAST WALTZ, novel by Tamara McKinley

JACARANDA VINES, novel by Tamara McKinley

TABLE FOR FIVE, novel by Susan Wiggs


WINES:
1999 Verite La Joie Sonoma Valley
2005 Dutch Henry syrah
2006 Dutch Henry syrah
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
1990 Moccagatta Bric Balin
1990 Carmignano Riserva La Vigne Alte AMBRA
2003 Peter Michael chardonnay Les Carrieres (sp)
2001 Jones Family cabernet "Three Sisters"
Pizzeria Travigne house chardonnay (probably 2005)
2004 Dancing Hares
1992 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet
R.L. Buller & Son Fine Muscat
2002 Shirvington McLaren Vale cabernet