SMOKE

What Moi found interesting about BLUE SMOKE AND MURDER,a novel by Elizabeth Lowell, is the notion of "blue smoke" -- i.e., how the hoopla surrounding an art work defines the (commercial) value of said art work. Cultural capital at its capitalistic worst...it's not that different, actually, as to how certain poetries are valued....it's just that there's not much money usually in Poetry, the upside to which, though, is that it's immune to the recession.

In these recessionary times (wink), here's my latest Relished W(h)ine List:

THE CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST (to date)
5 persimmons
2 orange decorative squash
4 green figs
12 Santa Rosa plums
50 apricots
86 strawberries
1,551 basil leaves
377 purple basil leaves
267 mint leaves
505 pinches of parsley
7 zucchini
7 yellow squash
1 orange squash
590 tomatoes
40 green figs
23 green onion stalks
302 green peppers
11 red peppers
8 Japanese eggplants
45 purple table grapes


PUBLICATIONS
ONLY MYSTERY: FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA'S POETRY IN WORD AND MEANING by Sandra Forman and Allen Josephs

DEMENTIA BLOG, prose poetry by Susan M. Schultz

NOT SO FAST ROBESPIERRE, poems by Geoffrey Gatza

GOODNIGHT VOICE, poems by Dana Ward

HAVE A GOOD ONE, poems by Anselm Berrigan

THE ENIGMATIST, poetry journal edited by Mike & Joyce Gullickson

LETTERS TO POETS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POETICS, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY, Edited by Jennifer Firestone & Dana Teen Lomax

ON THAT DAY EVERYBODY ATE: ONE WOMAN'S STORY OF HOPE AND POSSIBILITY IN HAITI, memoir by Margaret Trost

WE'VE ALWAYS HAD PARIS...AND PROVENCE: A SCRAPBOOK OF OUR LIFE IN FRANCE by Patricia and Walter Wells

CHINA GHOSTS: MY DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY TO AMERICA, MY PASSAGE TO FATHERHOOD, memoir by Jeff Gammage

FORWARD FROM HERE, memoir by Reeve Lindbergh

THE HILLS OF TUSCANY: A NEW LIFE IN AN OLD LAND, memoir by Ferenc Mate

AN IRISH COUNTRY DOCTOR, novel by Patrick Taylor

BLUE SMOKE AND MURDER, novel by Elizabeth Lowell

THE PERFECT HUSBAND, novel by Lisa Gardner

SAY GOODBYE, novel by Lisa Gardner

THE OTHER DAUGHTER, novel by Lisa Gardner

THE THIRD VICTIM, novel by Lisa Gardner

THE NEXT ACCIDENT, novel by Lisa Gardner

ALONE, novel by Lisa Gardner

GONE, novel by Lisa Gardner

SHEM CREEK, novel by Dorothea Benton Frank

THREAD OF DECEIT, novel by Catherine Palmer

TAILSPIN, novel by Catherine Coultier


WINES
1994 Von Strasser Cabernet NV
2003 Dutch Henry Cabernet
1996 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Rochioli Vineyard
1990 Prunotti Cannubi
1996 Bacio Divino
2002 Behrens & Hitchcock Merlot NV
Schramsberg sparkling wine
2004 Dutch Henry Argos
2006 Dutch Henry rose
2004 Dutch Henry chardonnay
200_ Dutch Henry pinot noir
2004 Dutch Henry "Terrier Station" cabernet
1993 Ravenswood Old Hill Ranch zinfandel Sonoma Valley
2006 Tangient
1993 Seavey cabernet
Domaine Chandon sparkling wine
2006 Mondavi chardonnay
2007 Mondavi pinot noir