DANGEROUS ISLANDS!

Blurbed Seamas Cain’s forthcoming lush novel, THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS, to wit:

Words tell the story, yes. But the words, one senses in Seamas Cain's The Dangerous Islands, were not just authored but also precipitated by immediately preceding words or phrases. This is to say, the energy flowing through this novel is so powerful it sometimes dances away from a narrative thread(s). The result is an author going beyond the limits of self, and a story that is not just "pleasure [but] is a violent pleasure."
--Eileen R. Tabios

And speaking of relishes, here's moi latest update to my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. I think this is it for the tally of this City Slicker’s attempt to be a farmer. Yeah, there’s a few stray figs to go but, bemused to see that I continue my ineptness at engaging with Napa’s fertile earth. Hah. Anyway, meanwhile…in the Publications section, note that if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects ). And I'm looking looking looking for reviewers to get books offa moi floors and to hit 100 new reviews for the next issue! Yeah! More info on that HERE.

CITY SLICKER SUMMER/FALL HARVEST
(the last pathetic tally)
112 cherry tomatoes
159 regular tomatoes
28 red onions
2 strawberries
18 zucchini
74 summer squash
51 squash flowers
44 green beans
1 lemon cucumber
9 pumpkins
27 sprigs of basil
5 clumps of sage
1 green cucumber
4 lemon cucumbers
8 sprigs of mint
50 Concord grapes
30 figs
3 bunches of chives


PUBLICATIONS
* DENSITIES, APPARITIONS, poems by William Allegrezza (Fabulously ravaged poems ravage the reader right back. I feel like I left behind pieces of a broken heart in its pages once I closed the book -- so powerful it was!)

ALIENS: AN ISLAND, poems by Uljana Wolf, trans. by Monika Zobel (resonant concept and poems)

* RADIATOR, poems by NF Huth (not sure why but I responded to this with affection)

* RE-, poems by Kristi Maxwell

* NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN, poems by Aaron McCollough

UPON NOSTALGIA, poems by Caroline Crumpacker

POEMS FROM REDRESS, poems by Hannah Zeavin

WAR ON A LUNCHBREAK, poems by Ana Bozicevic

from INSTANT CLASSIC, poems by erica kaufman

908-1078, poems by Brandon Brown

THE ERRANCY, poems by Jorie Graham (hm...)

PAPER PAVILION, poems by Jennifer Kwon Dobb

WHAT IS POETRY, poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and images by Frederico Amat (the collaboration with painter Amat as well as wonderful book design elevates this project)

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE: STORIES by rob mclennan (fabulous!)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ASIAN COLLECTIONS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE, curated by Mya Thanda Poe

I SOLD ANDY WARHOL (TOO SOON), memoir by Richard Polsky (highly entertaining)

MADE FOR YOU AND ME: GOING WEST, GOING BROKE, FINDING HOME, memoir by Caitlin Shetterly (I’m just starting to read books effected by the Great Recession. This is a good one with much heart and charm)

ON A DOLLAR A DAY: ONE COUPLE’S UNLIKELY ADVENTURES IN EATING IN AMERICA, memoir by Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard

PIONEERING IN OREGON’S COAST RANGE: SURVIVING THE DEPRESSION YEARS, memoir by Ione Reed

BAD DOGS HAVE MORE FUN: SELECTED WRITINGS ON FAMILY, ANIMALS AND LIFE FROM THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, journalism by John Grogan

THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS, novel by Seamas Cain (in manuscript; see above blurb)

THE PRICE OF POWER, novel by James W. Huston

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, novel by Sheldon Siegel

INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE, novel by Sheldon Siegel

FINAL VERDICT, novel by Sheldon Siegel

DERAILED, novel by Sheldon Siegel

THE KILL CLAUSE, novel by Gregg Hurwitz

TROUBLE SHOOTER, novel by Gregg Hurwitz

GIDEON’S WAR, novel by Howard Gordon

LETHAL, novel by Sandra Brown

THE BRASS DOLPHIN, novel by Caroline Harvey

ONE LAST LOOK, novel by Linda Lael Miller

OKLAHOMA BRIDE, novel by Carol Finch


WINES
2006 Kendall Jackson Grand Reserve cabernet Sonoma
2010 Lynmar Estate Pinot Noir Reserve
2009 Lynmar Estate Russian River Valley chardonnay
2007 Lynmar Estate Russian River Valley pinot noir
1990 Gaja Spress
2008 Nickel & Nickel syrah
2006 Pirathon Barossa Valley shiraz
Montalcino (house wine at Famous Luigi in Washington)
Shoofly Shiraz
2007 Felsina Chianti Classico Reserva Rancia (moi ultimate Washington wine)