BOUNTIES!

I actually hosted a mini high school reunion this past weekend; here's Meredith, one of the participants (and that rare thing: a non-poet reviewer for Galatea Resurrects!) waxing enthusiasm over some weekend harvesting:



Michael of course got in the act with, literally, a baby zucchini!



I'm feeling more optimistic this year over this City Slicker's gardening attempts. Here's the rest of my latest “Relished W(h)ine List)”:

SPRING/SUMMER HARVEST:
1 stalk of "miner's weed"
103 stalks of green onion
97 strawberries
2 artichokes
2 cherries
9 zucchini
4 stalks of scallions
8 summer squash
6 cucumbers
115 tomatoes
1 fig
6 bell peppers
10 clumps of basil
3 cucumbers


PUBLICATIONS
GUSTAF SOBIN COLLECTED POEMS, Co-Eds. Andrew Joron & Andrew Zawacki (now that's what I call a COLLECTED! This is a breathtakingly wonderful testament to a poet's rich legacy)

THE INCOMPOSSIBLES, poems by Carrie Hunter (read in manuscript form as I'm providing a blurb for its forthcoming book form. Here's the unedited blurb:

Every poem in THE INCOMPOSSIBLES is "an utterly unique void." What seems consistent is a rhythm of certainty, even as the poems posit uncertainties; these are musics impossible to categorize. Read a line like "The indecipherable spoken aloud"* and you can't help but read again, then again. As you continue reading, you realize you're searching for something you might discover but will defy memory-zation if only because the context of a reading changes each time. I guess that's the (or, one, ) point of these poems--it encourages the search itself and the discovered beauties in the process make the uncertainties welcome. That's what fabulous poems can achieve: the suspension of belief into language for its own sake. Thus, do "obscurities hold hands..."


[* I first cited "The decapitated head of Lack" but apparently another blurber cited this wonderful line]

WHERE SHADOWS WILL: SELECTED POEMS 1988-2008 by Norma Cole

YINGLISH STROPHES, 1-19, poems by Thomas Fink (stellar and often spectacular!)

THE FRENCH EXIT, poems by Elisa Gabbert (such fragile-nesses are difficult to textually manifest-- a lovely achievement)

THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND: A FICTIONAL ESSAY IN 29 TANGOS, poems by Anne Carson

THE PHILOSOPHER'S CLUB, poems by Kim Addonizio

NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Jennifer Clement

IATROGENIC: THEIR TESTIMONIES, poems by Danielle Pafunda

IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE, poems by Shya Scanlon

STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMON, a meditation by Mark Doty (astonishingly and stunningly dazzling--a book I wish I wrote)

FROM ASHES TO AFRICA, memoir by Josh and Amy Bottomly

WHAT THE WORLD EATS, photos by Peter Menzel and text by Fairh D'Aluisio

ALL ABOUT CATS AS PETS by Marjorie Zaum

THE APPRENTICE, novel by Tess Gerritsen

THE PERSUADER, novel by Lee Child


WINES
2004 Dutch Henry cabernet
2006 Dutch Henry merlot Yountville
2007 Dutch Henry merlot Yountville (from barrel)
2009 Dutch Henry pinot noir Mt. Veeder (from barrel)
2009 Dutch Henry pinot noir Penngrove (from barrel)
2009 Dutch Henry sauvignon blanc Chafen Family Vineyards
2004 3Rings Shiraz Barossa Valley
2005 Saxum Broken Stones Paso Robles
2009 Zahtila chardonnay NV
2006 Zahtila Dry Creek zinfandel
2006 Zahtila Oat Hill Estate zinfandel
2006 Zahtila cabernet NV
2005 Zahtila Rutherford cabernet
2005 Zahtila "Laura's Theme" petite syrah
1997 Behrens & Hitchcock Petite Syrah Old Vine NV