MOI FAVORITE 2012 POETRY READ!

I think I just read what just would become my FAVORITE 2012 POETRY READ: the latest poetry collection from John Olson, LARYNX GALAXY (Black Widow Press). Do yourself a favor and CHECK IT OUT!


I also recently read Rene Ricards’ LOVE POEMS. What’s interesting, too, is that I happened to have the book lying on the dining table. Well, Michael saw it and picked it and drew this...on the proverbial napkin!

I believe he liked the image of the turkey-heart.  Then, coz he's a boy-chick, he also drew this:

Sigh.  Anyway, if he can focus, he's such a talented hijo! And here’s the latest update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below (a tad heavy on airport reading). Also, please 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.


PUBLICATIONS
LARYNX GALAXY, poems by John Olson (so multi-layered and multi-referential in a loose way so that disjunction always maintains an inherent harmony)

LOVE POEMS by Rene Ricard with drawings by Robert Hawkins

* EYELID LICK, poems by Donald Dunbar (interesting technique)

* THE PRACTICE OF RESIDUE, poems by Kimberly Lyons

* MATERIAL GIRL, poems by Laura Jaramillo

* YOUR INVITATION TO A MODEST BREAKFAST, poems by Hannah Gamble

PUTI/WHITE, poems by Patria Rivera

* BONE BOUQUET, Vol. 3, Issue 2, poetry journal curated by Krystal Languell, Elizabeth Brasher, and Allison Layfield

* TRANSFEMINISM & LITERATURE, with work from T.L. Cowan, Joy Ladin and Tim Trace Peterson

* HOMAGE TO ETEL ADNAN, prose homages by Ammiel Alcalay, Jen Benka, David Buuck, Steve Dickison, Thom Donovan, Sharon Doubiago, Simone Fattal, Robert Grenier, Benjamin Hollander, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Stephen Motika, Nancy J. Peters, Csava Polony, Megan Pruiett, Brandon Shimoda, Roger Snell, Cole Swensen, Stacy Szymaszek, Lynne Tillman, Fawwz Traboulski, and Anne Waldman

SEASONS AT EAGLE POND, essays/memoir by Donald Hall

LEARNING TO DRIVE, essays by Katha Pollitt

KISSES FROM KATIE, memoir by Katie Davison with Beth Clarke

OUTCASTS UNITED: AN AMERICAN TOWN, A REFUGEE TEAM, AND ONE WOMAN’S QUEST TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, journalism by Warren St. John

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, novel by Cormac McCarthy

THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, novel by Kim Edwards

THE NEGOTIATOR, novel by Frederick Forsythe

THE DETACHMENT, novel by Barry Eisler

THE SIXTH MAN, novel by David Baldacci

BALLISTIC, novel by Mark Greaney

THE GEMINI MAN, novel by Richard Steinberg

OFFICIAL DUTY, novel by Dorene Roberts

CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS, four linked novellas by Paige Winship Dooly, Kristy Tykes, Pamela Griffin & Debby Mayne

THE NEXT ALWAYS, novel by Nora Roberts

THE RESCUE, novel by Nicholas Sparks

REMEMBER WHEN, novel by Anne Laurence

ANSWERED PRAYERS, novel by Danielle Steele (godawful but….when you’re stuck in lines at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, you read whatever’s about…)


WINES
2007 Serra Barbaresco Paiti
2004 Trevor Jones shiraz Barossa
2003 Ch. Rauzan Despagne
2006 Astrale e Terra "Atlas Peak" syrah NV
2008 WH Smith pinot noir Sonoma Coast