MARK LAMOREAUX IS "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED"

to quote how some peeps like to end their book reviews.

This tongue that cracks
               the roof of the mouth,
speech of spit-out
                              teeth
--from "[Angels]" by Mark Lamoreaux

Anyway, I think I've read nearly all of Mark Lamoreaux's recent chaps. I've always enjoyed the experience. But it wasn't until his latest chap, SOMETIMES THINGS SEEM VERY DARK, that I paused [insert pause] to feel-think that this guy is writing with that deeply-affecting resonance of youth. Worth nota bene-ing by Moi since I haven't noticed that in a while. (Youth here is poetic youth, which often overlaps with but is not synonymous with age-based youth. Don't ask me to expand; I'm noting this thought down for further clarification down the road, not to share its points as a fully-developed review now.) Mark seems to have begun -- to my delight as a reader now committed to following his poems -- a body of work that will manifest the SUBLIME. Fortunately, the text from the limited edition print chap will be reprinted in the near future by Dusie.

And what better lead in to Moi latest list of Relished W(h)ines:

BOOKS:
SOMETIMES THINGS SEEM VERY DARK, poems by Mark Lamoreaux

COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan

FRACTAL ECONOMIES, poems by derek beaulieu

EK-AE: A JOURNEY INTO EKPHRASTIC AESTHETICS, poems by Matina L. Stamatakis

SONOLUMINSCENCE, poetry collaboration by Simone Muench & William Allegrezza

[FROM SLOT (TO PULL AN HISTORICAL SITE FORM YOU)], poem by Jill Magi

) ) ), poems by Samar Abulhassan

LOT OF MY SISTER, poems by Alison Stine

TETHER, poem by Drew Kuntz

TRUANCY, poems by Sarah Anne Cox with drawings by Paris Cox-Farr

SPECIMEN, poems by Marci Nelligan

FOLLY, poems by Nada Gordon

BLACK STONE, meditation by Dale Smith

FILLING STATION, Issue 36, Ed. by derek beaulieu et al

WRITING POETRY FROM THE INSIDE OUT, Edited by Sandy Lyne

FROM NEWBURY WITH LOVE: LETTERS OF FRIENDSHIP ACROSS THE IRON CURTAIN, Eds. by Anna Horsbrugh-Porter and Marina Aidova

THE MISTRESS' DAUGHTER, memoir by A.M. Homes

FLOOR SAMPLE, memoir by Julia Cameron

THE GOOD GOOD PIG: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD, biography of a pig by Sy Montgomery

IN MEMORIAM TO IDENTITY, novel by Kathy Acker

REMEMBERING LAUGHTER, novel by Wallace Stegner

THE FUGITIVE WIFE, novel by Peter C. Brown

NUMBERED ACCOUNT, novel by Christopher Reich

WHERE THE HEART IS, novel by Billie Letts

THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, novel by Kate Jacobs

THE TRUTH SEEKER, novel by Dee Henderson

THE RESCUER, novel by Dee Henderson

HIGH NOON, novel by Nora Roberts


WINES:
1994 Ravenswood Zinfandel Beaterra Vineyard Special Release in Celebration of Sonoma's 150th Anniversary
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
2003 Dutch Henry Argos
2002 Dutch Henry Reserve cabernet
2006 Dutch Henry pinot noir
2003 Peter Michael "Ma Belle Fille" chardonnay
1995 Brunello di Montalcino C____(sp to come)
2004 Mark Aubert Ruelling chardonnay
2006 Swanson pinot grigio
1989 Maximillan Gronhauser Herrenweg Auslese 93.
2005 ROAR Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands
1993 Ravenswood zinfandel Wood Road

A Wine Nota Bene: That 2002 Dutch Henry Reserve Cabernet has got to be one of the current Fine Wine BARGAINS out there. Check it out if you think you know your wine.