A DELIGHT!

Well isn't that special! Someone relished 1000 Views of Moi! That's worth interrupting our regularly scheduled programming of THOUGHTS WHILE JUDGING A POETRY CONTEST! To wit, David Hart of Stride Magazine (scroll to bottom) reviewed 1000 VIEWS OF GIRL SINGING and had this to say:

"When I received [the Laâbi] in the post, I saw at its endpaper an advertisement for Leafe Press's 1,000 Views of "Girl Singing", edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman, which caught my imagination strongly enough for me to send a cheque for it. It was money very well spent, it's a unique book, if in uneasily small print, of many invited responses, by way of poetry or visually, to a poem by Eileen Tabios.

It has led me to speculate about early modern, say 15th-16th centuries or earlier, whether there were, along with circulation of poems by hand, also response-poems and perhaps drawings: exchanges and additions verbally and visually. The book implements a fertile present and suggests a future for such intermingled new work. A delight."

And it's a delight to be doubly-relished, first with a book and then the review of the book! Thankee John or instigating!

And here's moi latest Relished W(h)ine List -- if the poetry publications seem to comprise a paltry list, it's because I'm also reading books for a poetry competition I'm judging, which I won't be listing here):

PUBLICATIONS
TEXTURE NOTES, poems by Sawako Nakayasu (intelligent luminosities!)

UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS FORMING A GROUP WAITING TO CROSS, poems by Mark Yakich

SO FORTH, poems by Joseph Brodsky

ASHES GIFTED, poems and painting reproductions by Joshua Abelow (a witty and funny self-awareness)

A SCRIPT, poems by Joel Chace

AGAINST THE FORGETTING: FRANCES FROST & PAUL BLACKBURN, biography by Robert Buckeye

TIE ONE ON 1 and TIE ONE ON 2, conceptual art by Alex Gildzen (very entertaining -- RECOMMENDED and AVAILABLE FOR FREE AT ungovernable press. I thought Bill Allegrezza was HOT until I saw Kevin Killian. Grin.)

THAT BOOK WOMAN, children's book by Heather Henson with pictures by David Small

INVISIBLE, novel by Paul Auster

SILENT KILLER, novel by Beverly Barton

HOW SWEET IT IS, novel by Alice J. Wisler

HEROIC MEASURES, novel by Jill Ciment

NOT MY DAUGHTER, novel by Barbara Delinsky

NO SECOND CHANCE, novel by Harlan Coben

TARGET, novel by Catherine Coulter

A CREED COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, novel by Linda Lael Miller


WINES
2002 Dominique Laurent Nuits-Saint-Georges les Saint-Georges Vieilles Vignes
2002 Eitelsbacher karthauserhofberg Riesling Eiswein Mosel Saar Ruwer
1997 Clarendon Hills Shiraz Piggot Range Vineyard
2005 Ovid "Experiment"
2001 Clerico Ginestra
2005 Araujo Estate Viognier
1996 Jones Family Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
2003 Jones Family Estate "The Sisters"
2003 Rieussec
2006 Trefethen pinot noir
2006 Culler syrah
2006 Dr. Loosen Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett Stablay parcel
2006 Napa Cellars Zinfandel NV
1994 Vega Sicilia
2004 Dancing Hares
2002 Blankiet Cabernet
2000 Colgin cabernet
Schramsberg sparkling wine
2008 Vineyard 29 29 Estate cabernet (barrel sampling)
2007 Vineyard 29 29 Estate Blanc
2006 Vineyard 29 29 Estate cabernet
2007 Vineyard 29 Aida Estate Late Harvest zinfandel
2005 Bressler Vineyards cabernet
2007 Bressler Vineyards pinot noir