READING POETRY THE WAY ONE DRINKS WINE

Moi latest list of Relished W(h)ines unabashedly shows that I obviously met with members of Oenophiles for Poetry while in New York. But a wine list that moves from the 2004 Chianti Frescola to the 1959 Latour a Pomerol might also be a metaphor for the poems one reads. That it's all not a matter of good art or bad art (low art or high art) but that it's a matter of ... pleasure.

(Of course it's not all pleasure. When I drink wine, I also am researching....and at times I read poems that way, too.)

Highly recommend Brian Strang's chap dark adapt, by the way. Brian's poems are new to me -- I was pleased to see the mysterious dark music in his poems -- archetypal stuff.

And here's the rest of moi latest Relished W(h)ine List:

PUBLICATIONS:
DARK ADAPT, poems by Brian Strang

COLLECTED POEMS by Paul Auster

RIPPLE EFFECT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Elaine Equi

ILLITERATE HEART, poems by Meena Alexander

NOVEL PICTORIAL NOISE, poems by Noah Eli Gordon

TERRAIN TRACKS, poems by Purvi Shah

THE COW, poems by Ariana Reina

TURNING TO FICTION, poems by Donna Masini

FROZEN ACCIDENT, poems by Alfred Arteaga

FRAIL-CRAFT, poems by Jessica Fisher

FOURSQUARE Special Edition featuring the poetry of Maureen Thorson (Charlottesville, VA, July 2007)

FOURSQUARE, July 2007, Edited by Jessica Smith, featuring poems by Nava Fader, Michalle Gould, Reb Livingston and Sheila Murphy

FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER: A DAUGHTER OF CAMBODIA REMEMBERS, memoir by Loung Ung

STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS, memoir by Catherine Goldhammer

SOR JUANA'S SECOND DREAM, novel by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

KEEPING THE WORLD AWAY, novel by Margaret Foster

THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE, novel by Masha Hamilton

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS, novel by John Le Carre

THE ALEXANDRIA LINK, novel by Steve Berry

BALANCE OF POWER, novel by James Huston

LAST SHOT, novel by Gregg Hurwitz


WINES
2004 Chianti Frescola
2003 Rausan Despagne
1970 Lynch Bages
1990 Lynch Bages
1992 Comte Lafour Merseault Chames
1991 Henschke Hill of Grace
1964 Cheval Blanc
1995 Ciacci Brunello di Montalcino
2001 Kistler "Durell Vineyards" chardonnay
2005 JJ Prum Wehlenuhr Sonnenuhr Spatlese
1992 Opus One
1990 Dom Perignon Champagne
1985 Domaine Leroy Mazis Chambertin
1962 Vega-Sicilia Unico Reserva
1978 JL Chave Hermitage
1959 Latour a Pomerol
1983 Chateau d'Yquem
2001 Alois Kracher #5 Welschreisling Trockenbeerenauslese Zwischen Den Seen