NECESSARY DETOURS

Isn't that a lovely image? That's a drawing from brilliant New York-based artist Maureen McQuillan who has an exhibition up now at McKenzie Fine Art. And, apparently, I gave Maureen the idea for the title of her exhibit: "Necessary Detours"! Well, preeen! Click on the link for more info and images, though I have to post this other gorgeous image, too; medium is a manipulated photograph:



And, of course, moi whole “Relished W(h)ine List)” thing is one of those…necessary detours! Ergo, here's my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List which, for your amusement (though not always mine), shall inaugurate the Spring 2010 harvest tally here on Galatea.

SPRING HARVEST (to date):
1 stalk of "miner's weed" (Naturally, it took a visitor to tell me that what I thought were "jes weeds" were actually the wonderful miner's weed which is a type of lettuce. But instead of beginning to harvest the whole array, I only picked one, before thoroughly sanitizing it to taste it. I refuse to pick more since the lot, unfortunately, is located exactly where the dogs love to pee and poop. Such be my lot -- moi continued bathetic lot -- as a gardener or farmer.)
100 stalks of green onion
7 strawberries


PUBLICATIONS
Hay(na)ku for Haiti Booklets by 14 poets so far! (Click HERE for more info, free book offer, and how you as a poet can participate!

EASY EDEN, collaborative poems by Micah Ballard and James Patrick Dunagan (luminous and wise gems. A ravishingly glorious read)

EASTER SUNDAY, poems by Barbara Jane Reyes (poems viz diamond-etched metals--another ravishing read)

DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, poems by Dunya Mikhail, trans. From the Arabic by Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail (interesting)

32 SNAPSHOTS OF MARSEILLES, poems by Guy Bennett

IF NOT METAMORPHIC, poems by Brenda IIjima

A BOOK OF UNKNOWING, poems by John High

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS: A COLLECTION OF CLOTHING POEMS, Eds. Vasiliki Katsarou, Ruth O'Toole, and Ellen Foos

AMERICAN HYBRID: NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF NEW POETRY, Co-Eds. Cole Swensen and David St. John

SIMON J. ORTIZ: A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE, Edited by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Zuni Lucero

THE SHARED VOICE: CHANTED AND SPOKEN NARRATIVES FORM THE PHILIPPINES by Grace Nono, with Mendung Sabal,Henio Estakio, Baryus Gawid, Salvador Placido, Sarah Mandegan, Gadu Ugal, Florencia Havana, Sindao Banisil, Elena Rivera-Mirano

KAPWA: THE SELF IN THE OTHER—WORLDVIEWS AND LIFESTYLES OF FILIPINO CULTURE-BEARERS, study and meditations by Katrin De Guia

BABAYLAN: FILIPINOS AND THE CALL OF THE INDIGENOUS, edited by Leny M. Strobel

A BOOK OF HER OWN: WORDS AND IMAGES TO HONOR THE BABAYLAN, poetry, art and meditations by Leny M. Strobel

ANCIENT HISTORY: FROM THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS TO THE RENAISSANCE by J.M. Roberts

MAUREEN MCQUILLAN: NECESSARY DETOURS, art monograph to exhibition at McKenzie Fine Arts

ALIMATUAN: THE EMERGING ARTIST AS AMERICAN FILIPINO, monograph of exhibition curated by Koan Jeff Baysa

NIGHT TRAIN, novel by Martin Amis

THE KILLER'S WIFE, novel by Bill Floyd

EVIL AT HEART, novel by Chelsea Cain

COLLISION, novel by Jeff Abbott

PANIC, novel by Jeff Abbott

NERVE DAMAGE, novel by Peter Abrahams


WINES
2000 Dutch Henry Chafen Vineyards Reserve Cabernet NV
1994 Artadi Vina El Pison Rioja
2006 Peter Michael "La Carriere" chardonnay
2001 d'Arche Lafaurie "Cuvee Madame" sauterne
2002 Jadot Chapelke-Chambertin
2003 Samuel's Gorge grenache
2005 Mollydooker "The Boxer" shiraz
2005 Saxum "Heartstone"