VIZPO ALERT: THE HAY(NA)KU ZUCCHINI!

Do enjoy Michael and Achilles conspiring to present a zucchini hay(na)ku with some recent delectations from my mismanaged garden:



Okay, it also means I'm not quite getting it yet about the best zucchini being the small ones. So for more serious repast, please do go check out Allen Bramhall's thoughtful and witty engagement with THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT; here's an enticing expert:

Our revolutionary educational friend Paulo Freire advocated dialectic over the pressed meat into sausage casing model of education (i. e. lecture lecture lecture into sponge brain ninnies, Sponge Brain Square Bob). These collaborations ruffle appropriate feathers in the demonstrative debate for the poem’s fair creation.

Meanwhile, here's Moi latest here's my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List, heavy on airport reading but also fortunately some blessings from East Coast friendly wine cellars:

SPRING/SUMMER HARVEST:
1 stalk of "miner's weed"
110 stalks of green onion
97 strawberries
2 artichokes
2 cherries
14 zucchini
4 stalks of scallions
12 summer squash
14 cucumbers
438 tomatoes
1 fig
9 bell peppers
35 clumps of basil
3 cucumbers
9 squash blossoms
100 chives
4 red jalapenos
7 green jalapenos


PUBLICATIONS
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, hay(na)ku collaborative poem anthology curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen Tabios (Very SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER here!)

FLUX, CLOT & FROTH, VOL. I (Text), book-length poem by John Bloomberg-Rissman (proofing this future release by Meritage Press. Poem is just under 800 pages -- Yep: I love ambition in poetry! And the covers are done marvelously with vizpo poet-artist Geof Huth!)

FLUX, CLOT & FROTH, VOL. 2 (Apparatus), book-length notes to poem by John Bloomberg-Rissman (Notes comprise a near-250 page book -- Yep: I love ambition in poetry!)

DIWATA, poems by Barbara Jane Reyes (GORGEOUS! I simply INHALED this book. Am so happy and proud of this achievement by Barbara. One of the most stellar achievements of this book is how it ends. The choice of the last poem elevated the all of the book into strength and power(!) -- a point worth noting because much of the words are just so lushly beautiful. To be beautiful is often to be stared at -- with the last poem, the reader suddenly realizes the reader is also being witnessed. The reader is being watched .... as in, I am watching you to make sure the wrongs of history will know: Never Again.)

BECKMANN VARIATIONS & OTHER POEMS by Michael Heller (Very Inspiring.)

SIMPLIFY ME WHEN I'M DEAD, poems by Keith Douglas (breathtaking)

LA VISTA GANCHA, poemas by John M. Bennett

OBRAS PUBLICAS: POEMS, STORIES, ESSAYS, ETC. by Halvard Johnson (enjoyable reading!)

MAN ON EXTREMELY SMALL ISLAND, poems by Jason Koo

OF FRACTURED CLOCKS, BONES AND WINDSHIELDS, poems by Sheela Sitaram Free

HECATE LOCHIA, poems by Hoa Nguyen

JUAN LUNA’S REVOLVER, poems by Luisa A. Igloria

BARROW, poems by Bryan Thao Worra

SEDIMENT, poems by Sandy Tseng

THE HEART'S TRAFFIC: A NOVEL IN POEMS by Ching-In Chen

BRIGHT FELON: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CITIES, poems by Kazim Ali

POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT by Ronaldo V. Wilson

BIRD EATING BIRD, poems by Kristin Naca

THE GINKGO LIGHT, poems by Arthur Sze

THE VEILED SUITE: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF AGA SHAHID ALI

THIS IS A SOUL: THE MISSION OF RICK HODGES, biography by Marilyn Berger

FROM SAKHALIN TO SANTA, memoir by Don Ashley Turlington

THE REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO RAYMUNDO MATA, novel by Gina Apostol (should be required reading along with the canonical texts it references)

RECKLESS, novel by Andrew Gross

SUPREME JUSTICE, novel by Phillip Margolin

THE MEPHISTO CLUB, novel by Tess Gerritsen

TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, novel by Mary Higgins Clark

THE ASSASSIN, novel by Rachel Butler

THE FAITHFUL SPY, novel by Alex Berenson

UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS, novel by Vickie McDonough

A CHRISTMAS CHRONICLE, novel by Pamela Griffin


WINES
2008 Chapellet chardonnay
2007 Peter Michael "Ma Belle Fille" Chardonnay
2009 Cupcake malbec
2009 Chalone pinot noir
2002 Pahlmeyer Chardonnay Sonoma Coast
1989 Clerico Barolo Bricotti Bussia
2003 Standish Barossa Valley
1986 d'Yquem
1978 Monfortino
1992 Puligny Montrachet Les Pucelles
1970 Vega Sicilia
2002 Raveneau Blanchot Chablis
1990 DRC Romanee Saint Vivent
1982 Ch Certan De May

Okay, moi other dawg insists on sequal spotlight time as with Achilles. Here's the no-doubt-soon-to-be-famous zucchini hay(na)ku featuring Gabriela with Michael:



Yep, that zucchini hay(na)ku does look to be on the verge of collapse. Which also is a poetics! Listen to Allen again:

What this means is that verses have a discrete power. The six words team up to maintain a local gravity while spinning around the idea of The Poem. I know, for myself, that the segregation of the regulated 6 words of each verse creates a separation from the larger work, even while supporting that larger work. A centripetal force occurs in tandem with the gravitational pull. I hope that’s not too much science for humanities types.

All / very kewl / and quite delish!