LIST-ING (PUN INTENDED)

The good thing about Lists, as has been recognized many times, is how it serves up the illusion of control, or at least management. I have an image of some raggedy circle of light, in its center some list and at the fringes the darkness held back. Sumthin' like that. So speaking of lists, here's my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List (I really should "harvest" more lettuce):

WINTER HARVEST:
500 pounds of olives (but sadly went all to compost due to City Slicker's ignorance of pressing olives for oil within 24 hours of being picked)
35 pounds of honey (too bad they're lying all frozen in a vat; as soon as we can heat up the temperature in the storeroom, we can jar 'em!)
18 persimmons
101 Meyer lemons
11 oranges
1 head of red lettuce
1 head of green lettuce


PUBLICATIONS
MAGNIFICAT FOR THE NEW YEAR, poetry broadside by Sheila E. Murphy (magnificent! Speaking of Sheila, see my just-recalled "blurb" HERE)

JOAN MIRO--"MAY 1968", poetry broadside by Mark Lamoreaux

TELEMACHIAD, poems by Michael Scharf

HAZMAT, poems by J.D. McClatchy

PIGAFETTA IS MY WIFE, poems by Joe Hall

HOW WE BECAME HUMAN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo (very satisfying, primarily for that narrative arc as well as how individual poems, despite being personal, don't get narcisstic)

"from SALT", poetry bookmark by Alison Hawthorne Deming

A HISTORY OF SMALL LIFE ON A WINDY PLANET, poems by Martha Collins (uh huh. small...)

SPENT: SELECTED POEMS by Jose Kozer, translated by Mark Weiss*

THE MORNING NEWS IS EXCITING, poems by Don Mee Choi*

VAUXHALL, poems by Catherine Daly*

IRRESPONSIBILITY, poems by Chris Vitiello*

PETALS OF ZERO PETALS OF ONE, poems by Andrew Zawacki*

OUTSIDE VOICES: AN EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE by Jake Berry and Jeffrey Side

FOR THE ORDINARY ARTIST: SHORT REVIEWS, OCCASIONAL PIECES & MORE by Bill Berkson (art criticism enlighted by the highest rigor: a loving feeling)

A MEGAPHONE: INDEX OF NAMES, PRIZES, JOURNALS, PRESSES, CONFERENCES, ANTHOLOGIES, BLOGS, AND DISCUSSION LISTS co-edited by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young (exhausting!)

THE SECRET LIFE OF COWBOYS, memoir by Tom Groneberg

SNOWFLAKES: A FLURRY OF ADOPTON STORIES BY, FOR AND ABOUT CHILDREN AND TEENS, edited by Teresa Kelleher with Katie Flake and Paul Kelleher-Smith

MULTIPLE BLESSINGS: SURVIVING TO THRIVING TWINS AND SEXTUPLETS, memoir by Jon and Kate Gosselin and Beth Garrison

MOMS GO WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: ADVENTURES IN MOTHERHOOD by Jean Wester Anderson

LOVED BY CHOICE: TRUE STORIES THAT CELEBRATE ADOPTION, c-eds. Susan Horner & Kelly Fordyce Martindale (heh: you can track a narrative by looking at the four parenting-related titles...)

GOOD DOG. STAY, illustrated essay by Anna Quindlen

AN OBJECT OF BEAUTY, novel by Steve Martin (sly, devilish, witty, ekphrastic ... very amusing read)

ONE TRUE THING, novel by Anna Quindlen

(* read in 2009)


WINES
2007 Bogle petite sirah Sonoma
200_ St. Francis cabernet
2004 Clare Luce Abbey cabernet
1991 Barca-Velha
2005 Joh. Jos. Pprum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese
2001 Torbreck Descendant Barossa Valley
1995 Haut Brion
1995 Dow Quinta Do Bomfim
2006 William Downie pinot noir Yarra Valley
2004 Dutch Henry "Argos"