LET’S ALTER SILENCE!

Busssy Beeee. Off and offline as of tomorrow until Oct. 13: Have a good week! Busy Moi was rushing around trying to minimize her In-Box pile before taking off. Which is to say, I managed to squeeze in a blurb for a fabulous forthcoming book: ON THE ALTERACTION OF SILENCE: RECENT CHILEAN POETRY (La alteración del silencio: Poesía chilena reciente) edited by Galo Ghigliotto and William Allegrezza. Moi said:

Once, the historian Arnold Toynbee apparently named Chile as a "country of the future," which Adan Mendez calls "inexplicable" in one of his poems. The explanation, though, might be the moving bounty of poetry continuing to come out of Chile since she birthed "the first Spanish poetic expression known in the Americas,...La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga," as well as Latin America's first two Nobel Prize winners Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1970). For Chile's contemporary poets are writing energetic poems with fresh forms, musics and perspectives which deserve wider exposure on the global stage. Chile's poets are pushing forward the known limits of poetry with compelling poems--if these poems' invitations to be inhabited are eagerly accepted, they also will share something about the hunger, astonishment, radiance, grief and desire that stews together to form Chile: "The blazing light of the sun /...Pouring heat on my body / Letting it live burning it gradually // Come see this burning."
--Eileen R. Tabios

Besides altering silence, there’s more relishes on my latest update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects! More info on that HERE.


SUMMER/FALL CITY SLICKER HARVEST
23 bunches of house grapes
35 black figs
151 green figs
30 heirloom tomatoes
35 plum tomatoes
17 jalapenos
36 cucumbers
3 lemon cucumbers (we didn’t plant these this season; they’re last season’s which seeded themselves)
8 strawberries
13 sprigs of mint
14 sprigs of basil
41 yellow squash
21 eggplant
28 zucchini
5 bell peppers
50 lines of chives
1 peach (doesn’t really count because while it’s the first fully formed peach we’ve mustered, it wasn’t edible. But it’s our first!)
1 pear (our first!)
3 canteloupes (our first!)
8 honeydews (our firsts! City slickers that we are, we initially thought this was ripening watermelon. Harvested it (ooh: I love claiming I “harvest” anything!) Didn’t know what they are until we cut into one and tasted. They’re tiny, though: the size of my fist. But still good miniatures!)
0 plums for the season (because the birds et ‘em all!)


PUBLICATIONS
THE ALTERATION OF SILENCE: RECENT CHILEAN POETRY (La alteración del silencio: Poesía chilena reciente), bilingual poetry of poems translated from Spanish to English, edited by Galo Ghigliotto and William Allegrezza (a total FEAST! See above blurb)

SYMPHONY NO. 7, poems by Ric Carfagna (simply: magnificent. A feat … I wish I’d written it, I so loved it!)

DIVINE MADNESS, poems by Paul Pines (my favorite so far of his books. Wonderful poems and poetics!)

THE ORACULAR SONNETS, poems by Mark Young and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (re-read this since I first published it years ago, and it is still WONDERFUL!)

EATING IN THE UNDERWORLD, poems by Rachel Zucker (I don’t know why it took me so long to find this 2003 book, which is to say it deserves more attention. Nor do I know why it took so long for someone to reimagine the myth of Demeter, Persephone and Hades into a more fulsome reality. Stellar.)

* PLAINT, poems by Richard Darabaner, Edited by Daniel Gabriel (a moving, posthumous collection from a tortured soul)

USELYSSES, poems by Noel Black (a lot of fun!)

NOT NOT, poems by jim mcrary (as ever, quite raucous!)

* ARDOR: POEMS OF LIFE by Janine Canan (an ecstatic read!)

* EVERYONE HAS A MOUTH, poems by Ernst Herbeck

* ON POEMS ON, poems by Sandra Liu

HAIKU AND TANKA HARVEST by Victor P. Gendrano

* HOUSE ORGAN, No. 80 Fall 2012, Edited by Kenneth Warren (so much great stuff!)

* THE GREAT AMERICAN POETRY SHOW, Vol. 1, anthology edited by Larry Ziman. Madeline Sharples, Nicky Schlitz

* THE GREAT AMERICAN POETRY SHOW, Vol. 2, anthology edited by Larry Ziman. Madeline Sharples, Nicky Schlitz

ABC TO ENLIGHTENMENT: GUIDEPOSTS IN OUR LIFE’S JOURNEY, advice by Victor P. Gendrano

NOT WORKING: PEOPLE TALK ABOUT LOSING A JOB AND FINDING THEIR WAY IN TODAY’S CHANGING ECONOMY, economics/journalism by DW Gibson

WIFE OF THE CHEF, memoir by Courtney Febbroriello

ADMISSION, novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz

SIMPLE, novel by Kathleen George

THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED RIPLEY, novel by Patricia Highsmith

TURBULENCE, novel by John J. Nance

STAY CLOSE, novel by Harlan Coben

LETHAL LEGACY, novel by Irene Hannon

A MAN’S HEART, novel by Lori Copeland


WINES
2004 Philippe Colim Chassagne-Montrachet La Maltroie
1997 Greenock Creek Corner Stone Grenache Barossa Valley
1992 Von Strasser cabernet
2002 Louis Jadot Corton Charlemagne
200_ Robert Foley
2001 La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Reserva Especial
1992 Von Strasser cabernet NV