I TELL ON NO TELL

Jill Alexander Essbaum's HARLOT reminds me of one of my favorite poets, Evelyn Lau. Not because of eros or the narrative contents in their work so much as tone: they both got that dark music of clinking ice and highball glasses going on....

Speaking of HARLOT's publisher, No Tell Books, they just released an anthology with one of my weirdo poems -- but that shouldn't preclude you from checking out, nay, buying this newly released anthology

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor, Edited by Molly Arden and Reb Livingston

It's more than bedside reading, yo!

And here's latest list of Recently Relished W(h)ines:

PUBLICATIONS:
AMIGO WARFARE, poems by Eric Gamalinda

LYRICS FROM A DEAD LANGUAGE, poems by Eric Gamalinda

AMBIENCE IS A NOVEL WITH A LOGO, poetry by Tan Lin

RAPID DEPARTURES / PARTIDAS RAPIDAS, poems by Vincent Katz,translations into Portuguese by Regina Alfarano and art by Mario Cafiero

DOG GIRL, poems by Heidi Lynn Staples

DOING SEVENTY, poems by Hettie Jones

HARLOT, poems by Jill Alexander Essbaum

DREAD, poems by Ai

OVERNIGHT, poems by Paul Violi

FOURSQUARE, Vol. 2 No. 4, Sept. 2007, poetry broadside Edited by Jessica Smith with cover art by Anna Bell and poems by Michelle Morgan, Claire Hero, Suzanne Frischkorn and Gillian Devereaux

SNOWFALL, novel by Mitchell Smith

BACHELOR'S PUZZLE, novel byJudith Pella

BUSCANDO A NEMO, LA HISTORIA MAGICA DE LA PELUCAL DE DISNEY, children's book courtesy of Disney
 
CARS, LA HISTORIA MAGICA DE LA PELUCAL DE DISNEY, children's book courtesy of Disney
 
MI PRIMERA BIBLIOTECA DE POOH, children's books courtesy of Disney
 
WINNIE THE POOH, LA HISTORIA MAGICA DE LA PELUCAL DE DISNEY, children's book courtesy of Disney
 
LA SIRENITA, children's book adaptation by Oriol Izquierdo with illustrations by Max
 
MI CASA, children's book by Rebecca Emberley
 
ESTRELLITA DE ORO, children's book by Joe Hayes with illustrations by Gloria Osuna Perez & Lucia Angela Perez
 
EL PATITO FEO, children's book adaptation by Merce Escardo I Bas with illustrations by Max
 
EN REGALO DE FERNANDO, children's book by Douglas Keister
 
LA TORTUGA Y LA LIEBRE, children's book by Susan Lowell with illustrations by Jim Harris
 
LA FIESTA DE LAS TORTILLAS, children's book by Jorge Argueta
 
 
WINES:
1993 Lindemans Coonawarra Limestone Ridge shiraz
2002 Rockford "Basket Press" shiraz
2003 Chase Family Winery Hayne Vineyard Reserve Zinfandel
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
2002 William Fevre Chablis Grand Cru Valmur
2003 Jones Family cabernet
2003 Altagracin Napa Valley Red Wine
Heitz cabernet, Bottle, 2005
2004 Darioush cabernet
Schramsberg Blanc de Noir
2002 Tofanelli zinfandel Napa Valley