NEW DEADLINE SET FOR GALATEA RESURRECTS

I’m still in “fine mettle” (haha), and so Moi wants to blog-file another update to my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. 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 while I’m putting the next issue to bed, it’s time to announce the next deadline for the next issue: April 15, 2012. Yeah! More info on that HERE.


PUBLICATIONS
TOWARD THE YEAR TWENTY-TWELVE, poetry broadside by Sheila E. Murphy (wonderful!)

PRACTICAL WATER, poems by Brenda Hillman (magnificent, ravishing, smart, utterly fabulous—to understate the matter)

* O BON, poems by Brandon Shimoda

* THOU SAND, poems by Michael Farrell

HOMECOMING: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Julia Alvarez (a reprint of her first book; what makes it effective, too, is the Afterword where the mature writer casts her eye at the young writer who first wrote the book—moving)

THIRST, poems by Mary Oliver (Book could have used some slight editing to enhance what is a lovely lyrical archetypal gentle power within these poems. By “editing”, I mean that some poems should have been deleted as they weren’t as powerful as others.)

STOP PRETENDING: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MY BIG SISTER WENT CRAZY, poems by Sonya Sones

* TEENY TINY #13 poetry zine, Editor Amanda Laughtland (has a huge heart way bigger than the zine's less-than-palm-sized physical expanse)

ECCOLINGUISTICS, literary/arts zine (admirable)

HOUSE ORGAN No. 77, Winter 2012, Editor Kenneth Warren (as usual, STELLAR!)

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007, Guest Editor Heather McHugh

THE GREAT DEPRESSION: A DIARY by Benjamin Roth, edited by James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth (highly-recommended especially to history lovers who love primary sources)

THE FORGOTTEN MAN: A NEW HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION by Amity Shlaes

DESPERATE DAYS: MEMORIES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, memoir by Adeline D. Rafferty

PIONEER DOCTOR: THE STORY OF A WOMAN’S WORK, bibiliography of Dr. Mary Babcock (Moore) Atwater by Mari Grana

AND I SHALL HAVE SOME PEACE THERE: TRADING IN THE FAST LANE FOR MY OWN DIRT ROAD, memoir by Margaret Roach

MEMORIES OF PHILIPPINE KITCHENS: STORIES AND RECIPES FROM FAR AND NEAR by Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan, with photographs by Neal Oshima

GOING HOME: FINDING PEACE WHEN PETS DIE, spirituality by Jon Katz

THE PURCHASE PRICE, a “Teeny” novel by Gilad Elbom

THE 7TH VICTIM, novel by Alan Jacobson

FEAR THE WORST, novel by Linwood Barclay

NO TIME FOR GOODBYE, novel by Linwood Barclay

KEEP A LITTLE SECRET, novel by Dorothy Garlock

STAY A LITTLE LONGER, novel by Dorothy Garlock

CHRISTMAS AT TIMBERWOODS, novel by Fern Michaels


WINES
2007 Harris Estate cabernet
2008 Beaulieu Vineyard cabernet
2002 Hutton Vale Grenache Mataro Eden Valley
2005 Trevor Jones shiraz
Zuzu House Tempranilla
Turley at Zuzu restaurant
2004 Stag’s Leap merlot NV
1997 The Napa Valley Reserve
2005 Hobbs Grenache
2006 Charter Oak Zinfandel