THREE OF THE MANY SHAPES OF POETRY'S SEEDS

Susan Schultz is blogging! And this is interesting (click on excerpt for whole post):

"I would argue that poetry needs to be read in quantity, ..."

Scale takes no short-cuts when it comes to expanse...Go, volume!

Well, that's poetry. The real big news at Galatea is that -- whew!!!! -- I finally can add something to my Winter Garden list besides the 54 Meyer lemons I snatched before winter frost blew onto Napa Valley. But, yes, you can tell by my list that my Winter Garden threatens to be as, if not more, embarassing than my Summer/Spring Garden results. Gardening -- it's as difficult as Poetry.

Here's me whining forth the latest Relished W(h)ine List:

CITY SLICKER'S "WINTER GARDEN" HARVEST (to date)
three clumps of bok choy

two (skinny) clumps of purple kale

one clump of Red Velvet lettuce (or, I think that's the vegetable's name. Most veggies are aliens to Moi if they don't come frozen or packaged...)

54 Meyer lemons


PUBLICATIONS
HOUSECAT KUNG FU: STRANGE POEMS FOR WILD CHILDREN (in manuscript form) by Geoffrey Gatza and forthcoming this Spring 2009 from Meritage Press!

CHIMES (in manuscript form) by Adam Fieled and forthcoming in April 2009 from BlazeVox Books -- here's Moi (unedited) blurb:

At times so painful and lovely and fragile that Chimes made my mind's eyes weep. My body's eyes, however, refused to cry as they did not want to stop reading--Chimes paradoxically is a page-turner even as the words compel you to linger on each page. Chimes is one of the most moving autobiographies I've read--actually, language's beauty makes it irrelevant whether this is fiction or non-fiction; its authenticity is felt to be true. It is language dreaming of song and so it sings until the most tone-deaf reader can, through dream and a most gentle delirium, inhabit its world. For the reader, too, Chimes thus is "not an is but [a] being." Adam Fieled accomplishes what The Catcher in the Rye did for him and that he wished to replicate: that by "words demonstrat[ing]...potential for continuity," he "give[s] people back themselves." Quite logically, the book's ending is a beginning: the being as forever a continuance. That is, "continuance...an excitement and a way of still existing.")

DESTROYED WORKS, poems by Philip Lamantia (burnt moi into holy territory!)

SWARM OF EDGES, poems by John Olson

HOLIDAY CARD POEM -- "Vierzehnten Dezember" -- by Mark Lamoreaux (thank you!)

HOLIDAY CARD POEM --"Upon the Year 2009" -- by Sheila Murphy (thank you!)

GRAVITY & GRACE, poems by Ernesto Priego (deceptively (i.e. seemingly effortlessly) ambitious -- and a truly lovely long-poem)

NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR, haibun by Matsuo Basho & Translated by Sam Hamill

FROM CHANSONNIERS, poems by Patrick Dunagan

GOD'S SILENCE, poems by Franz Wright

CADAVER DOGS, poems by Rebeca Loudon (a most welcome tumult)

SONNETS FROM A GARDENER AND OTHER POEMS by Abelardo Subido (I read this book as well as that of Tarrosa Subido's below; this couple supposedly is the "Filipino Brownings". So.....dare I say this? Of course I dare: To wit -- I prefer Abelardo's poems to Tarrosa's. I'm not saying one is better than the other. I'm saying, I prefer Abelardo's poems to Tarrosa's....moithinks Abelardo, poetically, took more risks)

PRIVATE EDITION: SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS by Tarrosa Subido

SORRY TREE, poems by Eileen Myles

THE ALPS, poems by Brandon Shimoda

THE WINE OF ENDLESS LIFE: TAOIST DRINKING SONGS FROM THE YUAN DYNASTY, poems translated by Jerome P. Seaton

CLASSIFICATION OF A SPIT STAIN, artist book by Ellie Ga

AROUND THE HOUSE AND IN THE GARDEN: A MEMOIR OF HEARTBREAK, HEALING AND HOME IMPROVEMENT by Dominique Browning

A WOMAN NAMED SOLITUDE, novel by Andre Schwartz-Bart

EXTREME MEASURES, novel by Vince Flynn

PARTNER IN CRIME, novel by J.A. Jance

UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, novel by J.A. Jance

INJUSTICE FOR ALL, novel by J.A. Jance

TRIAL BY FURY, novel by J.A. Jance

DYING TO PLEASE, novel by Linda Howard

ALL THE KING'S MEN, novel by Linda Howard

KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP, novel by Linda Howard

CRY NO MORE, novel by Linda Howard

OPEN SEASON, novel by Linda Howard

CROSS COUNTRY, novel by James Patterson (well, I still finished it but I gotta say, this guy's deteriorated: this latest from him is the most facile novel I've seen from him ... it seems like an outline for a novel vs a novel)

A CEDAR COVE CHRISTMAS, novel by Debbie Macomber (popcorn)


WINES
2001 Blankiet Estate Paradise Hills Vineyard Merlot NV
1975 Lafite (Xmas wine)
1999 Torbreck "Descendant" Barossa Valley
1996 Greenock Creek cabernet Barossa Valley
1991 Ravenswood Zinfandel "Old Hill Vineyard Sonoma Valley
2005 JJ Prum Wehlenuhr Sonnnenuhr Riesling Spatlese
1996 Colgin Herb Lamb
1993 Abreu Madrona Ranch
1994 Nackenheimer Rothnberg Riesling Beerenauslese
 1990 Prunotto Barolo
2005 Fess Parker Syrah Santa Barbara
1998 Ornellaia
1988 Sassetti Brunello
1988 Coutet