ARTICHOKE POETICS

I have a pathetic vegetable/fruit harvest result-list (see City Slicker "SPRING HARVEST" below). But I think it's because of what this photo symbolizes: in order for an artichoke to flower, it's gotta get past the veggie stage when it otherwise would be "harvested" for eats. But look at that flower arising from the artichoke patch -- isn't it as ferocious as a poem?! Not edible in terms of original intention, but seductive in a fresh way...



Anyway, here's moi latest “Relished W(h)ine List)”"


SPRING HARVEST:
1 stalk of "miner's weed"
100 stalks of green onion
45 strawberries
2 artichokes
2 cherries (sigh)
2 zucchini
4 stalks of scallions


PUBLICATIONS
LAST WORD IS THE POET'S CALLING, poem by Aileen Ibardaloza

TIMES IN RHYMES, RUINS, poem by Jon Curley
(The Ibardaloza and Curley titles are the latest additions to Hay(na)ku for Haiti (Click HERE for more info and free book offer!)

SYMPHONY NO. 1 (EN ENTROPIC CUBIST DIMENSIONALITY), poems by Ric Carfagna (FABULOUS updating of the 20th century's cubist experiments in poetry. Page 4 alone is worth checking out :-). Click HERE to do so in a free read!)

AERODOME ORION & STARRY MESSENGER, poems by Susan Gevirtz (ethereal but embodied at the same time)

TRANCE ARCHIVE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Andrew Joron (read many of these poems before but also enjoyable to see it in a Selected context. If you're in the Bay Area, you should try to attend Andrew's reading with Will Alexander! this Wednesday, June 16, at 7 p.m. at City Lights!)

WATER THE MOON, poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (had read this before in manuscript form; lovely to see it in finished book form!)

GRIEF SUITE, poems by Bobbi Lurie (a searing courage)

THE SEVEN AGES, poems by Louise Gluck (stellar writing but made me wonder what would happen, too, if she started relying more on, say, a third-party pronoun...)

AS IT TURNED OUT by Dmitry Golynko, Trans. by Eugene Ostashevsky with Rebecca Bella and Simona Schneider

ALL THAT GORGEOUS PITILESS SONG, poems by Rebecca Foust

WINGS WITHOUT BIRDS, poems by Brian Henry

FAULTY MOTHERING, poems by Elaine Randell

THE DOORS OF THE BODY, poems by Mary Alexandra Agner

WHOMEANSWHAT, poems by Lars Palm

INFINITE DIFFERENCE: OTHER POETRIES BY U.K. WOMEN POETS, Ed. Carrie Etter (educational, useful, necessary)

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, novel by Stieg Larsson

ORIGIN IN DEATH, novel by J.D. Robb

DIVIDED IN DEATH, novel by J.D. Robb


WINES
2008 Blankiet "Prince of Hearts" NV Rose Wine
2007 Peter Michael "Belle Cote" chardonnay
2003 Pride cabernet franc Sonoma County
2002 Rusden "Black Guts" Shiraz Barossa Valley