I'M ONLINE! WELL, NOT REALLY...

It'll take at least a week to fix my Sonic Wall. Until then, a Big, Burly Man put me on Dial-Up, which on the mountain means I can't do much hefty work online (e.g. Galatea Resurrects). So I can only do quickies for now -- you know, like cutnpaste. So, here's my latest blurb done for another writer:

Gaha (babes) Noas (of the abyss) Zorge (become friendly) by Jesse Glass

Rollicking jesterous spawn of ... who knows? Here, the Q might as well be A and the A might as well be Q for Jesse Glass' “Gaha (babes)…” upends language...and if the receptive reader loses linguistic preconceptions such as cause-and-effect, what then results is music’s seduction into senselessness because the punchline can be: "IN THE LAND OF MY FORMER ENEMIES / a shaft resets time." Such wondrous things occur when a skull gives up its identity to a crystal ball.

Well, doesn't that make you want to read Jesse's forthcoming pub?

Anyhoo, and here's my latest Relished W(h)ine List :

WINTER GARDEN (to date)
7 Meyer lemons
88 persimmons
46 green figs & 4 purple figs (they should be out of season now but Mom's managing to eke 'em out)
18 red, yellow and green peppers
136 tomatoes (mom keeps eking them out...)


PUBLICATIONS
TRAJE DE BODA, poems (in manuscript form) by Aileen Ibardaloza (this was a finalist for The Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize, which I've also decided to publish next year with Meritage Press)

BHARAT JIVA, poems by kari edwards

NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF kari edwards, Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica kaufman & E. Tracy Grinnell. Includes Cara Benson, Frances Blau, Mark Brasuell, Julian T. Brolaski, Reed Bye, Marcus Civin, CAConrad, Donna de la Perrière, E. Tracy Grinnell, Rob Halpern, Jen Hofer, Brenda Iijima, Lisa Jarnot, erica kaufman, Kevin Killian, Wendy Kramer, Joseph Lease, Rachel Levitsky, Joan MacDonald, Bill Marsh, Chris Martin, Yedda Morrison, Eileen Myles, Akilah Oliver, Tim Peterson, Ellen Redbird, Leslie Scalapino, Michael Smoler, Sherman Souther, Eleni Stecopoulos, and Anne Waldman

THE GINKGO LIGHT, poems by Arthur Sze (as ever, masterful. What would be interesting is if Arthur ever did a single, million-page poem with his signature interconnections managing to seem effortless/weightless)

WATER THE MOON, poems (in manuscript form) by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (more than a cut above many Asian diasporic poems)

WALLS (ANAMNESES), poems by Marcel Cohen, Trans. by Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard

WORLD BALL NOTEBOOK, poems by Sesshu Foster

KA-CHING, poems by Denise Duhamel

PERSONATIONSKIN, poems by Karl Parker

ITINERARY, poems by Reginald Shepherd

BOOMERANG, poems by Brenda Cardenas

NOW SHOWING, poems by Jim Daniels

POEM, HOME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ARS POETICA, Eds. Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber (a unique and lovely project!)

ABOUT ALICE, memoir by Calvin Trillin

FARM CITY: THE EDUCATION OF AN URBAN FARMER, memoir by Novella Carpenter

ABOUT AIBEK! A JOURNEY OF INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION, memoir by Kevin Quirk

DAUGHTER FROM AFAR, memoir by Sarah Lynn Woodard

ABANDONED, novel by Cody McFadyen

PRAYERS FOR SALE, novel by Sandra Dallas

RAINWATER, novel by Sandra Brown


WINES
2006 Dutch Henry chardonnay Los Carneros
1998 Clarendon Hills Grenache Kangaroola Vineyard
2000 Sloan cabernet[-blend]
2001 St. Clement
1997 Napa Valley Reserve
1995 Artadi Vina El Pison Reserva
2002 Newton Unfiltered Chardonnay
2007 Luna Sangiovese
2000 Behrens & Hitchcock Las Amigas merlot Beckstoffer Vineyard NV
____ Arietta merlot
____ Chaffen Family Vineyards cabernet
2006 Dancing hares
____ Larkmead cabernet
2005 Buccella cabernet
2002 Jean Brullot Pugliny Montrachet
1989 Sandrone Cannubi Boschiis
2002 Hundred acres
2004 Saxum James Berry Vineyard
2005 Mollydooker "The Boxer" Shiraz
2002 Behrens & Hitchcock merlot NV