IT'S PRE-PHYLLOXERA!

It's sweet, isn't it? How my teensy novel got me the chops to do a blurb for THIS?! Well, do check out indeed Michelle Cruz Skinner's IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS!

Meanwhile, here's another newly-concocted blurb, this one for Lars Palm's forthcoming chap good behavior:

These are wonderful parenthetical novellas. Within "a snap of ... fingers," these inquisitions -- ranging over Pinocchio to addressing cats to white colonialism in Zimbabwe -- provide a welcome "kick in the head".
--Eileen Tabios

And speaking of recent relishes, here's my latest Relished W(h)ine List:

PUBLICATIONS
FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR, poems (in manuscript) by Lars Palm

1000 VIEWS OF "GIRL SINGING", multi-genre anthology of translations/collaborations edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman

BOSQUEJOS / SKETCHES, poemas by Edwin Agustin Lozada (am re-reading these poems by a former member of Rosa Montoya Bailes Flamenco as we'd chatted flamenco during Litquake when I read from my flamenco book Nota Bene Eiswein)

SUENOS ANONIMOS / ANONYMOUS DREAMS, poemas by Edwin Agustin Lozada

ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO, poems by Sandy McIntosh

CATCH LIGHT, poems by Sarah O'Brien (what a lovely luminescent debut of a collection!)

THIRD BODY, poems by Michel Delville, Trans. by Gian Lombardo

LEAFLETS: POEMS 1965-1968 by Adrienne Rich

NAVIGATE, AMELIA EARHART'S LETTERS HOME, poems by Rebecca Loudon (every word in this collection is necessary -- which is amazing because, as a project-oriented collection and given its nature, it stood the risk of containing poems-as-placeholders. The vibrant energy here does not cancel discipline.)

THE METHOD, poems by Sasha Steensen

THERE'S THE HAND AND THERE'S THE ARID CHAIR, poems by Tomaz Salamun

PLAY, poems by Liz Waldner

EVEN BEFORE MY OWN NAME, poems by Tracy Koretsky

BY WAY OF, four-chap collection of poems by Matthew Nienow, Emily Carr, Diana Woodcock and Diana Alvarez (I really like Toadlily Press' publisher's concept of four chaps in one book)

MAID OF HEAVEN: THE STORY OF SAINT JOAN OF ARC in verse by Ben D. Kennedy

BEATS OF NAROPA edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, artist's book by Ben Luzzato

FOOD AND WHINE: CONFESSIONS OF AN END OF THE MILLENIUM MOM, comedy/memoir by Jennifer Moses

THE DUGGARS: 20 AND COUNTING! RAISING ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST FAMILIES--HOW THEY DO IT, tell-all by Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar

BUILDING A HOME WITH MY HUSBAND: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE RENOVATION OF LOVE, memoir by Rachel Simon

THE RETURNS, fiction shorts by Dennis Barone

REACHING OUT, novel by Francisco Jimenez

SHADOW MAN, novel by Cody McFadyen

THE DARKER SIDE, novel by Cody McFadyen

A PLAGUE OF SECRETS, novel by John Lescroart

THE SCARECROW, novel by Michael Connelly

PACIFIC BEAT, novel by T. Jefferson Parker

STORM RUNNERS, novel by T. Jefferson Parker

MOST WANTED, novel by Michele Martinez

THE FINISHING SCHOOL, novel by Michele Martinez


WINES
1994 Serafini & Vidotto
1997 Behrens & Hitchcock syrah Napa Valley
1991 Chateau Reynella "Basket Pressed" Cabernet McLaren Vale
2003 Rausan Despagne
2007 Acacia Pinot hour NV/Carneros
1994 Dow
2005 The Grail of Liss Shiraz
2004 Peter Michael "La Carriere" chardonnay
2005 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Riesling-Spatlese
2002 Chevalier Montrachet "La Cabotte" Domaine Brouchard Pere & Fils
2004 Dancing Hares
1989 Gaja Sori San Lorenzo
1982 Ch. Ducru Beaucaillou
1997 Jones Family Vineyard cabernet
2001 Thierry Allemand Cornas
1853 Whitwhams Millenium Port Royal Reserve (a pre-phylloxera wine!)