HASTA LA VISTA (NUMERO DOS)

Still twirling about, unable to stay yet on po-blogland...as the Conjuration is still on-going (a stop-over in Hell is not just irritating but delaying). But in this brief touchdown, let me say thank you for

THIS (thanks Anny -- love being characterized as "could entice a critic into a labyrinth without escape")

and

THIS (high terror aesthetics, indeed!)

and

THIS (thanks for the hay(na)ku paintings, Tom!)

Let Moi also remind you please to consider joining the party over at Galatea Resurrects. Even as I'm a-whirl, I'm positioned to send out review copies which may interest you...and we've had some lovely additions recently to the list -- do check HERE for more info.

Until then, a catch-up on Relished W(h)ines:

PUBLICATIONS
FIELD OF MIRRORS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WRITERS, Ed. by Edwin Lozada

LANGUAGE FOR A NEW CENTURY: CONTEMPORARY POETRY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, ASIA AND BEYOND, Eds. by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar

LIKE THE RAINS COME: SELECTED POEMS (1987-2006) by Mercedes Roffe, Trans. by Janet Greenberg

THEORY OF COLORS, poems by Mercedes Roffe, Trans. by Margaret Carson

& PERSONA, poems by Mackenzie Carignan and photographs by Felicia Ohnmacht

ANON, poems by Chris Pusateri

THE DONNER PARTY, history in verse by George Keithley

IN GLAD THANKSGIVING: NEW POEMS by John Masefield

MIDNIGHTS, poems by Jane Miller and drawings by Beverly Pepper

POETRY FORUM: A PLAY POEM: A PL'EM by Judith Hall and David Lehman

BE THAT EMPTY: APOLOGIA FOR AIR, poems by Alice B. Fogel

2 POEMS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL by Logan Ryan Smith

RED SHOES, poems by Honor Moore

A TEENY TINY BOOK OF WAR, poems by Sandra Simonds

GOLDEN LIGHTS, poems by Amanda Laughtland

THE MARVELOUS BONES OF TIME, poetry by Brenda Coultas

AN ARCHITECTURE, poems by Chad Sweeney

THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY, poems by Stephanie Lenox

EITHER SHE WAS, poems by Karin Randolph

GLAD STONE CHILDREN, poems by Edmund Berrigan

CLEAR ALL THE REST OF THE WAY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1987-2007 by Warren Woessner

SHINY No. 14, Edited by Michael Friedman

MIPOESIAS, MARCH 2008 -- AMERICAN CUBAN ISSUE, Guest Ed. Emma Trelles

PAPER TRAIL, essays by Michael Dorris

DANCING UNDER THE RED STAR: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MARGARET WERNER, THE ONLY AMERICAN WOMAN TO SURVIVE STALIN'S GULAG by Karl Tobien

THE PRACTICE OF HOME: BIOGRAPHY OF A HOUSE by Charles Goodrich (hope you're enjoying it, Jean!)

RIVER FOR MY SIDEWALK, memoir by Gilean Douglas

THE GRASS WIDOW AND HER COW: AN ENCHANTING ACCOUNT OF COUNTRY LIFE IN WARTIME BRITAIN by Barbara Paynter

NORTHERN FARM: A GLORIOUS YEAR ON A SMALL MAINE FARM, memoir by Henry Beston

AN AMERICAN FAMILY, memoir by Jon and Michael Gallucio with David Groff

THE BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: TRUE STORIES OF GINNY, THE DOG WHO RESCUES CATS by Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer

ANNIE DUNNE, novel by Sebastian Barry

THE RACE, novel by Richard North Patterson

BABY CRIMES, novel by Randall Hicks

FRONTERA STREET, novel by Tanya Maria Barrientos

THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR, novel by Dean Koontz

THE UNDERTAKER'S WIDOW, novel by Philip Margolin

TERMINAL, novel by Andrew Vacchs

WHERE TRUTH LIES, novel by Christiane Heggan

KILLER WEEKEND, novel by Ridley Pearson

THE LETTER OF THE LAW, novel by Tim Green


WINES:
1998 Finca Dofi Priorat
1996 Clos Clare shiraz
2004 Dutch Henry Los Carneros chardonnay
2004 Dutch Henry Napa Valley Argos
1993 St. Francis zinfandel Sonoma Valley
1994 Araujo cabernet Eisele Vineyard
1996 Araujo cabernet Eisele Vineyard
1997 Araujo cabernet Eisele Vineyard
2006 Araujo Viognier
2005 Peter Michael L'Apres-Midi
1998 Napa Reserve
1996 Greenock Acre cabernet
2005 Casseda syrah Sonoma Valley