WHINED & DINNED

I rarely read poetry while traveling. Perhaps it's because traveling means that I would be unlikely to give any reading material my full attention. Thus, my latest W(h)ines List includes 20 books whose titles and authors I can't even recall...

PUBLICATIONS
CROSS SECTION, poem-broadside by Michael McClure (Thanks Jim M.!)

AT SEVENS AND EIGHTS, poem-broadside by Duncan McNaughton (Thanks again, Jim!)

ALL THE PAINTINGS OF GIORGIONE, poem by Elizabeth Willis

ANTHROPY, poems by Ray Hsu

BEAUTY [IS THE NEW ABSURDITY], poems by Jennifer Scappettone

LETTERS TO EARLY STREET, poems by Albert Flynn DeSilver

ERRATUM to and including A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS (LEVIATHAN PRESS, 2001), poetry by Giles Goodland

TRUE, memoir by Rae Armantrout

STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves (manuscript form)

CHEERS TO MUSES: CONTEMPORARY WORKS BY ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN, curated by Asian American Women Artists Association

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: A YEAR OF FOOD LIFE, memoir by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

THE NEW OUTDOOR KITCHEN, study by Deborah Krasner

TILL THE OLD MEN DIE, novel by Janet Dawson

THE BANCROFT STRATEGY, novel by Robert Ludlum et al

PRIMAL FEAR, novel by William Diehl

NIGHT OF THE HAWK, novel by Dale Brown

BETRAYAL IN DEATH, novel by J.D. Robb

NIGHT GAME, novel by Christine Feehan

About 20 historical romances all seeming like each other to deflect from tropical heat and humidity as well as transpacific air travel


WINES
2004 Luce Abbey Roncalli
2000 Napa Valley Reserve
2002 Napa Valley Reserve
2005 Altamura Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc
2004 Caymus Vineyards Napa Valley Zinfandel