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Marianne Villanueva is rare--a non-poet who's writing poetry reviews, and we're lucky to have her at Galatea Resurrects! Slam it, Marianne!

And here's the rest of my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Note that if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects. I'll probably release the next issue later this week, but the next review submission deadline is Nov. 15. Please do go HERE to see which poetry books you'd just love -- love! -- to review!

PUBLICATIONS
* UTOPIA MINUS, poems by Susan Briante (powerful yet finely-wrought. impressive and, more importantly, moving)

* X (ANGEL CITY), chap-length poem by Joseph Lease (wonderful political lyricism)

DOG EAR, poetry/visual art by Erica Baum (fabulous)

THUS &, poems by Derek Henderson (surprisingly deft)

NO FACE: SELECTED & NEW POEMS by Judith Roitman

NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY, poems by Suji Kwock Kim

THE SOURCE, book-length poem by Noah Eli Gordon (interesting. results from poet's process of reading page 26 of nearly 10,000 books in the Denver Public Library)

* A TOAST IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS, poems by Akilah Oliver

* ENJOY HOT OR ICED: POEMS IN CONVERSATION AND A CONVERSATION by Denise Duhamel & Amy Lemmon

THE STRESS OF MEANING, poem by Judith Roitman

THE MIDDLE by Carla Harryman

WHAT THE RAVEN SAID, poems by Robert Alexander

THE URGE TO BELIEVE IS STRONGER THAN BELIEF ITSELF, poems by Erin M. Bertram

BEAT THING, poems by David Meltzer

GOWANUS ATROPOLIS, poems by Julian T. Brolaski

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, poems by Kate Colby

PUNISH HONEY, poems by Karen Leona Anderson

100 SCENES, a novel as asemic poetry by Tim Gaze (brilliant!)

THE GIFT OF TONGUES: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF POETRY FROM COPPER CANYON PRESS, poetry anthology edited by Sam Hamill

TALISMAN: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND POETICS, FALL 1988 / THE ALICE NOTLEY ISSUE, edited by Ed Foster

SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS No. 8, edited by Brian Clements

* HOUSE ORGAN, No. 74, Spring 2011, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren (I so admire the commitment in this project)

GODDESS OF TURNIPS, handmade art/poetry mini-book by Daniel de Culla (muchas gracias, senor en Espana. es muy bonita!)

LIFE's special issue on THE ROYAL WEDDING: PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON (don't get on me; Mom picked it up as we were exiting a supermarket cash register....and I ended up reading it while being frustrated in my search for la casa's copy of Machiavelli....yeah, right...)

TAKE THIS BREAD, memoir by Sara Miles

FATAL ERROR, novel by J.A. Jance

IN TOO DEEP, novel by Jayne Ann Krentz

FIRED UP, novel by Jayne Ann Krentz

LONE STAR WINTER, two novels by Diana Palmer

MAIL ORDER BROOD, novel by Arlene James

FINDING HER WAY HOME, novel by Linda Goodnight


WINES
2008 Goldschmidt Crazy Creek Vineyard cabernet
2008 Lassiter Family Vineyards
Travigne house cabernet
2004 Trevor Jones Dry Grown Barossa Shiraz
Casa Lapostolle Sauvignon blanc