SINGING WITH EXPERIENCE
Started today a three week immersion in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience with scholar Donald John....who amused by beginning class with a reminiscence of what he did with his summer vacation -- among other things, a lecture on Dante and Blake at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Regaled with how much he loves chardonnays, including the inexpensive Aquinas chardonnay (haven't tried it yet but he recommends it) imbibed during that same trip. Assuming my notes are correct, he said that the Aquinas' back label mentions how St. Thomas Aquinas indeed used his scientific knowledge to defends his views on God....which surely, he notes, befits how he was described in The Guardian's coverage of his event as "an American academic from Napa Valley." All very amusing...
Donald John's lectures on Dante's Purgatorio had been instrumental in helping form the arc to The Light...
And here's my latest list of Whines and Wines:
PUBLICATIONS:
BELOVED INTEGER, poems by Michelle Naka Pierce
[ONE LOVE AFFAIR]*, poems by Jenny Boully
SHADOWED TRUTH, visual poetry collaboration by Andrew Topel & Jim Leftwich
GOING GOING, poems by Jen Hofer
SOLOLUMINESCENSE, poems by Simone Muench and William Allegrezza
908-1078, poems by Brandon Brown
ODE TO PUMPSIE GREEN & STRETCH PHILLIPS, poems by Adam Tobin
SILENT PICTURES RECOGNIZE THE WORLD, poems by Wanda Phipps
FINALMENTE: BRAZILIAN POEMS by Hugh Fox, translations by Glenna Luschei
from SOMEDAY I'LL BE SITTING IN A DINGY BAR, poems by Hwang Jiwoo, translated by Scott Warner and Young-Jun Lee
CaGeD, poems by Jared Hayes
RecollecTed, poems by Jared Hayes
ORGY IN THE BEEF CLOSET, poems by Michael Koshkin
LETTERS TOWARD JIM, poems by Matthew Langley
JOHANNA POEMS by Ben Mazer
SPECIMEN, poems by Marci Nelligan
COME KANAB, A LITTLE RED SONGBOOK, poems by Lance Newman
COR-RE-SPON-DENCE, poetry text by Jessica Bozek and typography by Eli Queen
KINE(STA)SIS, poems by Carrie Hunter
AND SO FOR YOU THERE IS NO HEARTBREAK, poems by K. Lorraine Graham
AFIELD, poems by Anthony Hawley
NORWICH UNVEILED, poems by Bill Shute
THE HEART AROUSED: POETRY AND THE PRESERVATION OF SOUL IN CORPORATE AMERICA, treatise by David Whyte
WILLIAM BECKMAN, Exhibition Catalogue with Essay by Donald Kuspit, Oct. 11-November 24, 2007 at Forum Gallery
SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS: TESTIMONIES OF NICARAGUAN WOMEN IN STRUGGLE by Margaret Randall, Edited by Lynda Yanz
I BOUGHT ANDY WARHOL, memoir by Richard Polsky
WE KEEP A LIGHT, memoir by E.M. Richardson
QUIT MONKS OR DIE, novel by Maxine Kumin
THE CASE OF THE MISSING BOOKS, novel by Ian Sansom
TEXAS DREAMS, novel by Linda Herring
THE EARTH AND I, children's book by Frank Asch
CAN YOU SLEEP LIKE BEAR, children's book by Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth
BABAR AND HIS CHILDREN, children's book by Jean De Brunhoff
A HOUSE OF LEAVES, children's book by Kiyoshi Soya and Akiko Hayada
WHEN I CARE ABOUT OTHERS, children's book by Cornelia Maude Spelman and Kathy Parkinson
SUN SONG, children's book by Jean Marzollo and Laura Regan
SOMETHING SPECIAL, children's book by Nicola Moon and Alex Ayliffe
DO YOU HAVE A SECRET, children's book by Jennifer Moore-Mallinos and Marta Fabrega
JONAH AND THE WHALE (AND THE WORM), children's book by Jean Marzollo
WINES:
1992 Ravenswood Pickberry Sonoma Valley
2005 Argentinian malbec (can't recall grower, but good to nota bene for keeping Argentinian wine in mind)
Labels: Relished W(h)ines, The Light Sang As If Left Your Eyes
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