SPAM FOR THE ZEITGEIST!

Oh I know some of youse might think I'm just SITTING AROUND, but I'm doing some serious sh...stuff over there, you know. You don't know? Well, get OVER HERE--it's no laughing matter.

Having said that, I love THIS PROJECT for making Moi giggle a lot ... !  

Whether you send a folded photograph, deliver some cut-up strips of paper, mischievously deconstruct a Godiva box, or send anything else your imagination, uh, imagines, you are welcome to join us! Your INVITATION HERE!

A MINI BOOK FOR GERTRUDE STEIN?

The latest mini-book for "Books on Chairs" is JAPAN TALES by New York-based art quilter Alice Brody.  It has an abstract narrative ...

I am loving receiving these tiny books from around the world. You are invited, too!  More info HERE.

SO MUCH ADO OVER A DICTIONARY

is happening over WHERE MOI SITS! 

PLEASE NOTE MOI NEW SNAILMAIL ADDRESS

over HERE.  Applicable, for instance, to review copies you want to send me for Galatea Resurrects.

MORE (ON) AWAKENINGS!

Poet-painter-scholar-critic (that, btw, is in the order of moi preference) Thomas Fink just emailed this over about THE AWAKENING:

The Awakening, with its titular gesture boldly troping on Kate Chopin, features Eileen Tabios' William Carlos Williams poem that is one of her most powerfully feminist poems!

And why am I bragging courtesy of Tom? Because I thought it'd be a good intro to the news that THE AWAKENING is now on Amazon.com! (Ignore the references to lack of inventory; it's in transit and you can go ahead and order now).

Jest sayin'....

 

A FONDNESS FOR FOUNDNESS: A POETICS

Everyone is invited to "Books on Chairs" but I also am making books for that project. What's been surprising is how I've taken so quickly to making the type of books I'm creating: books based on what randomly surfaces in my environment (e.g. the junk mail I receive) rather than based on something I intend to write about. Now I'm realizing that these tiny books are just another extension of my long-held poetics practice of wishing "to write in the world in the poem" versus relying on the constraints of my "I" -- and "eye." Of course, in creating works this way, one hopes that one's "I" -- and "eye" -- are also widened in expanse and vision. One hopes ... anyway, here, to date, are books reflecting my fondness for foundness. If the named author is someone else, it's because I "edited" that person's book into its tiny being. (I will update this list as I generate more books.)

READ MORE HERE.

THE GIFT OF READING GIFTS

Yay. Moi got gifts! jim mccrary sent over some small books – including one for my “Books on Chairs” project, to wit:

So some appear on my latest update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. As ever, 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.

And just as jim availed himself of moi invitation, you, too are INVITED HERE!

PUBLICATIONS

THE RESERVOIR, poems by Donna Stonecipher (meticulous as diamonds, luminous as … diamonds under sunlight. Rarefied pleasure indeed—I post a sample poem from this book over WHERE I LOVE TO SIT—scroll down to the Comments section)

THE GRAPEVINE poems by Richard Lopez (ecstatic. Lovely portrait, too, of the Artist as a Young(er) Man. A small chap but immense in heart and scope!)

MODULATIONS, visual poetry by Marton Koppany (FABULOUS! And so wonderful I felt compelled to review it, along with Addenda and THE READER—see below—for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects!)

ADDENDA, visual poetry by Marton Koppany (see above comment)

THE READER, poetry by Marton Koppany (see above comment)

* STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF CALIFORNIA, poems by Julien Poirier (first poetry collection read in 2013!)

* JEALOUS WITNESS, poems by Andrei Codrescu

WESTERN PRACTICE, poems by Stephen Motika

* TINDER // HEART, poems by Lisa M. Cole

* HOW TO LIVE ON THE PLANET: COLLECTED POEMS by Nanao Sakaki

WALKING THE MINEFIELD, poems by Judith Rose

154 FORTIES [by] JACKSON MAC LOW, Edited by Anne Tardos

BOOK OF LOVE, poems by M and G

LUCK, poems by Charles Bukowski

PLEDGE, something like poetry by Pro-Prop

MASH NOTE, poem by George Albon

ALPHABET LIFE, poems by George Albon

BULL, poems by John Bennett

From THE WAR BETWEEN THE SONS OF DARKNESS & LIGHT, poem by Michael Annis & Brave New World Order and jim mccrary

THE FOOTBALL POEMS by James Paul

A BROKEN THING: POETS ON THE LINE, Edited by Emily Rosko and Anton VanderZee

“OLD FATHER, OLD ARTIFICER”—CHARLES OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE by Diane Di Prima (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

CHARLES OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE by Edward Dorn (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

“COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIAL”—JOANNE KYGER: LETTERS TO & FROM (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

“LIKE A GREAT ARMFUL OF WILD & WONDERFUL FLOWERS—SELECTED LETTERS OF MICHAEL RUMAKER (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

LITTER, 2013,  online literary magazine edited by Alan Baker

MARSH HAWK REVIEW WINTER 2013 edited by Thomas Fink

THE ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW, Fall/Winter 2012, edited byLawrence-Minh Bui Davis and Gerald Maa

ABC OF DESIGN, introduction to chair designers by Lynn Gordon

1000 CHAIRS, design by Charlotte & Peter Fiell

THE WHITE HOUSE IN MINIATURE by Gail Buckland with photographs by Kathleen Culbert-Aguilar

THE RECEPTIONIST: AN EDUCATION AT THE NEW YORKER, memoir by Janet Groth

GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT, novel by Jean Rhys (as haunting as my first million reads of it)

THE GENIUS, novel by Jesse Kellerman

THE RIGHT HAND, novel by Derek Haas

SERPENT’S TOOTH, novel by Faye Kellerman


WINES
2007 Paitin Serra Barbaresco
2005 Trevor Jones Barossa shiraz
2002 Hutton Vale Grenache Mataro
2007 Peter Michael “La Carriere” chardonnay
2002 Dutch Henry cabernet Chafen Vineyards Northfork Reserve Hillside Estate
1992 Quinta Do Infantado port
2002 Jones Family cabernet
1998 Dunn Vineyards cabernet NV Howell Mountain
2003 Clare Luce Abbey Estate cabernet NV
Launois Grand Cru Reserve a Le Mesnil Sur Oger champagne
1853 Whitwhams Millenium King Pedro V Royal Reserve port

DEATH IS NO BARRIER

apparently to Mom who returned to write and release a new book!  Check out her THE LAST WORDS I COULD NOT SAY. 

... and these things of beauty lasting forever ...

PLEASE AWAKE TO ... THE AWAKENING!

[Please Forward]

theenk Books Announcement:

THE AWAKENING: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment
By Eileen R. Tabios
ISBN: 978-0-9647342-8-9
Price: $16.00

theenk Books, New York
Book Info: http://www.therepublicofcalifornia.com/theenk/theenkBooks.htm
Release Date: 2013
For More Information: theenkBooks@rochester.rr.com


theenk Books is proud to announce the publication of THE AWAKENING by Eileen R. Tabios, a triptych of long poems exploring the diverse ways an awakening unfolds. Also included is an essay on the poet's personal perspectives on the indigenous and the avant garde. The poems range over such disparate elements as the sexual lives of painters (and discussing such details with Dr. William Carlos William) to real-time emails on the poet's "9-1-1" birthday after the attacks on New York's World Trade Center to Angelina Jolie's involvement with refugees. The book's attention span/expanse reflects Ms. Tabios' attempts to collapse time into a point of universal empathy as the reader is asked: "Who decides what kind of life and why? // What kind of / life and / Why?"

Special Release Offer: The first hundred purchasers of THE AWAKENING will also receive their choice of either a complimentary issue of Black Spring Lawrence Issue (value $7), free shipping, or any of a variety of chapbooks from Hank's Original Loose Gravel Press ($7 value). More information at http://www.therepublicofcalifornia.com/theenk/Order.htm (Paypal to be available soon; contact the publisher!)

About the Poet: Eileen R. Tabios has released 24 print, four electronic and 1 CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, a “collected novels” book, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story collection. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, computer-generated hybrid languages, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Music, Modern Dance and Sculpture. She’s also edited, co-edited or conceptualized nine anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays. She blogs as the “Chatelaine” at http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com and edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review journal at http://galatearesurrects.blogspot.com.

About the Press: theenk Books, headquartered in Palmyra, New York, is the publisher of the literary journal Black Spring as well as poetry collections by Eileen R. Tabios, John Roche, Stephen Ellis, Steven Farmer and Steve Tills. Forthcoming are the Black Spring‘s Sonoma Issue and Black Spring‘s Prose Poetry/Hybrid Issue. It is proud to be affiliated with sister press Hank’s Original Loose Gravel Chappers featuring Tony Leuzzi, jim mccrary, Judith Roitman, Steve Tills, Eric Selland, Aldon Nielsen, j/j hastain, Alex Gildzen, G.E. Schwartz and Crag Hill.

[Also available soon from Amazon.com]

ARTIST = OBSESSIVE

and that's why I apparently am now a furniture designer and maker, too. Who'da thunk! Go to the link to see upon what The Poet With Chairs is perched so prettily.

SOME NEW YEAR'S FIRSTS

Well, January is nearly over which allows Moi to post some FIRSTS FOR 2013:


First poetry book read in 2013: STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF CALIFORNIA by Julien Poirier

First poem(s) published in 2013: poems from "147 MILLION ORPHANS: A Haybun" at MARSH HAWK REVIEW and ON BARCELONA

First poetry review book Moi reviewed in 2013: ROUNDING THE HUMAN CORNERS by Linda Hogan

First book(s) sold through Meritage Press: THE OBEDIENT DOOR by Sean Finney and DERIVE by Bruna Mori

First Meritage Press book re-ordered by Amazon.com: UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS (1978~2006) by Tom Beckett

My first poetry book reviewed in 2013: A 2006(!) book, SILENCES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOSS reviewed by Nicholas T. Spatafora in Litter Magazine

First other poet cited by a reader in relationship to any of my poetry: Edgar Allan Poe (I giggled in response)

First poem written in 2013: "OBJECT AS SUBJECT" which I like mostly for being able to quote from Eminem

First poetry collaboration(s) in 2013: "BOOKS ON CHAIRS" and 147 MILLION ORPHANS: A HAYBUN, a manuscript-in-progress which will include contributions from other poets including (those who've already finished their poems) Sheila Murphy, Thomas Fink, John Bloomberg-Rissman, j/j hastain and Tom Beckett.

First introduction(s) to other poets: Adrienne J. Odasso and Sun Yung Shin (looking forward to her participation in POETS ON ADOPTION)

First Galatea Resurrects review copies sent out to potential reviewers: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON; WESTERN PRACTICE by Stephen Motika; 154 FORTIES [by] JACKSON MAC LOW, Edited by Anne Tardos; and A BROKEN THING: POETS ON THE LINE, Edited by Emily Rosko and Anton VanderZee

First mischief-making that amused Moiself: Described HERE.

Moi first poetry book release in 2013: THE AWAKENING: A LONG POEM TRIPTYCH & A POETICS FRAGMENT

Moi first mini-book release in 2013: IF A CACTUS BLOOMS

I like lists-as-autobiography.  This list revealed something about moiself to me, which I shall keep private.  But here 'tis, too, for your FYI.

WHY YOU WANT ME TO REVIEW YOUR BOOKS!

Here's another reason why!

But I will post on this blog a cartoon I had to edit out of the "Sit With Moi" blog as I reviewed Tom Beckett's THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS.  I didn't put it on the other blog, not because I'm a prude, but because I don't know who reads that blog.  And I was just thinking, someone, uh, young, could end up there after playing in a dollhouse!  Anyway, here is the cartoon which I also "review" over WHERE I SIT:

I get many requests to review books.  Here's a guaranteed way to get a review from Moi: avail yourself of Moi Invitation to "Books on Chairs"!

ONE MORE TIIME FOR BEAUTIFUL EYES!

The "Holiday Special" for BEAUTIFUL EYES by Gayle Romasanta and Ramon Abad was so successful that I decided to extend its terms as a NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL through Feb. 28, 2013.  So if you're interested in ordering this very special bilingual children's book, you can go HERE for details or check out the lovely flyer below:

(Click on image to enlarge)

Feel free to email Moi at MeritagePress@aol.com for any questions!

BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS

The bad news is a thief has been filching from neighborhood postal boxes -- and I think said thief absconded with two chairs I'd ordered for SitWithMoi!  Not good -- these chairs are always ones of a kind.  The problem is so bad the local post office has ceased delivering to the neighborhood while they investigate, which means we have to go to the post office everytime we want to pick up our mail (since I'm in a small town, that's not as onerous as it sounds but it's still a pain...).

But the good, nay, THE GREAT NEWS is that my author copies of THE AWAKENING arrived safely!  My classy publisher sent them insured, priority mail which meant I had to sign for them so the boxes couldn't just be dropped off but had to be picked up by Moi.  So they arrived safely and here they are:

Official announcement to come.  Meanwhile, that's another book made and released when I'm not just sitting around (or perhaps while I'm sitting around...)!

REVEALING THE SECRET LIVES OF PUNCTUATIONS!

I'm always so happy to get input from readers of my books ... and consider it especially wonderful when they contact me about a book I put out years ago!  Adrienne J. Odasso--a poet new to me but will check her out--emailed the other day to say she found my 2006 book, THE SECRET LIVES OF PUNCTUATIONS, VOL. I, in a bookstore.  She said she found it

along with a signed copy of Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum," which I read at fourteen and after which I was never quite the same, so I took it all for an auspicious turn). Having come to the end of my reading "Secret Lives" this morning, I have filled out the blurb section at the back, photographed it with my iPhone, and now I attach it here...

Wonderful!  And you can see her blurb-poem HERE, but which I replicate here too as I enjoy it!

(Click on image to enlarge)

That was enough to make me rise in applause!  Thank you, Adrienne!

Then, of course, I returned to SITTING.  I've learned that sitting, by the way, facilitates moi blather ... as in the empty chair a metaphor for poetry!  Why not?  Before a poem can make you stand in applause, you must sit with it, di ba?  See?  Blather....

A GUARANTEED WAY TO BE REVIEWED BY MOI!

Ach!  I am just having so much fun SITTING AROUND!

And now, absolutely delightful MINI BOOKS! have started trickling past Galatea's gates to perch themselves on moi mini chairs!  Thank you for those who are sending books!  I need more!  Please peruse YOUR INVITATION.

I will be "reviewing" each mini book sent for SithWithMoi's library of "Books on Chairs".  That's guaranteed!

Meanwhile, please check out my latest mini-blather: how I turned a Godiva box (after I emptied it of chocolates, but of course) into a book!

Nota Bene to you poetry sophisticates: I tend to get a big pedantic on the Sitting Blog when I discuss poetry and poetics (e.g. my "Lucidity Poetics" blather).  Sorry about that.  It's just that not everyone going to that blog are poets and so I'm trying, but of course, to talk poetry to them, too.  And you know what happens when one tries to articulate Poetry: occasional pedantics, among other things...

AWAKE, ALL YE .... !

Lest you think all I'm doing is SITTING AROUND, just to alert you that I have a new book coming out -- and it's not a mini.  Thank you, Steve Tills and theenk books, for publishing my first book in 2013 (I know -- but I'm being optimistic vs arrogant in assuming I'll release more than one book; it's only January, after all ...):


      THE AWAKENING: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment


It's my first book to focus on the long poem, and here's a look-see at the front cover which features art by the brilliant and talented jenifer k wofford:

(Click on image to enlarge)

Await the word and It Will Come ... To Wake You Up!

"THE SLUM OF LEGS"

I keep relishing that quite poetic phrase from Finnish-American designer Eero Saarinen whose iconic "Pedestal Chair" I just discussed and featured over THERE WHERE WE SIT A LOT. 

Yep--no slum, indeed, on that one leg(ged chair)! 

Actually, that's the thing about SitWithMoi Blog -- it's likely the prettiest blog I have.  Real purty!

Won't you sit with us?

INVITATION TO "BOOKS ON CHAIRS"!

You are invited to participate in moi Miniature "Books on Chairs" Project. More INFORMATION HERE.

And if you wish to handmake a "book," one easy way to do it is FEATURED HERE.

May you be moved (enchanted) to help expand moi paltry miniature book library that's currently comprised of an unforgivably low number of seven books (now updated to nine):

For questions or more information, feel free to contact Moi at GalateaTen@aol.com


_____
P.S.  Look forward to The Chairman Speaks, Tom!

A NEW BOOK!

I should mention that your prolific Chatelaine just came out with a new book:

IF A CACTUS BLOOMS

Click on link to see the details on the book that is not for sale!  That's right!  I ain't pitchin' nothin'!  Jest sharing the news!

But I am happy to share its image with you:

I hope you've enjoyed my mini-news!

Now, won't you make Moi a "book"?!

MINI THOUGHTS DU JOUR

Those things called "miniature", when it comes to the empty chair, still have huge expanse if you incorporate their evocativeness into the matter.  The mini empty chair like a poem...

Moithinks I'm sitting around much because I know the work is in transition and all one can do is wait or process it through.  So I'm fiddling and faddling and occasionally lapsing to silliness ... sitting around and mentally playing whilst Poetry and Moi figure out our next steps together.  We also just stare at each other a lot, Poetry and Moi, hence the chairs as they're convenient for prolonged staring ...

The process has many benefits, though, the latest of which is discovering Gallery O, a studio gallery devoted to the miniature arts.  YOU SHOULD READ EVERY SINGLE ONE OF ITS POSTS -- they are SO ENCHANTING!  One of their posts, of course, addresses their exhibition of miniature chairs -- yet another reason to love artists!

ANOTHER HAYBUN

from moi manuscript, 147 MILLION ORPHANS: A HAYBUN, has surfaced at On Barcelona.  Thanks to editor Halvard Johnson!

I miss Barcelona ... will visit soon.

OBSERVATION DU JOUR

One of my projects elicited a request for an interview from the Main Stream. Was willing, but then had to pass as the questions required me to speak on behalf of poets, as if any one poet could represent all poets. Such a decision, of course, just accelerated my already fast descent into obscurity.

Poor poems, the Chatty One softly patted her poems, You just have to make it all out there on your own...

...and some of you are really bad, aren't you!

The bad poems (with their sooty faces instead of clean lines) look up at Mom and snort, Are you going all Les Mis on us?

MARSH HAWK REVIEW IS FRESH!

Delighted to have a poem from manuscript-in-progress 147 MILLION ORPHANS: A HAYBUN in the just-released Winter 2013 issue of the Marsh Hawk Review, edited by Thomas Fink. You are invited to access it at http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Review%20Frame.html. The editor says, "This is the largest and most stylistically diverse issue of the Review to date-- an auspicious beginning for the new year."

Here are the diverse and stylish contributors:

Vincent Katz
Jane Augustine
Christopher Schmidt
Natsuko Hirata
Daniel Morris
M.D. Johnson
Paul Pines
Kate Lamberg
Susan Terris
Mark Young
Eileen R. Tabios
Jack Lynch
Carole Stone
Lisa Kremens
Mary Mackey
Alan Ramon Clinton
Basil King
Stafford Gregoire
Harriet Zinnes
Raymond Farr
Thomas Fink
Charles Borkhuis
Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Stephen Paul Miller
Sheila E. Murphy
Andrew Levy
Hank Lazer

Obviously I'm biased but this is one of the best reads of literary e-zines I've experienced in recent times...

HONESTLY ASSESSING MOI 2012 POETRY READS

Whatever merit exists in moi poetry blather partly has to do with my diligence in reading others' poetry. So, for the year 2012, I read 263 publications by poets or on poets. The list below is alphabetized by the poets’ and/or editors’ last names (the latter usually because I include poetry journals in my read).

My reading is lower than my 2011 reads when I read at least 268 poetry books/collections, nine poetry or poetry-related anthologies, 17 poetry/literary journals and 26 other books/publications created by poets (I don’t separate out my 2012 list into categories this time because I’m lazy). So it’s clear that I need to step up moi game a bit in reading. Okay, I’ll do that—I’ve got plenty of spare time, after all (hah).

I’ll raise again some concepts (which I noted for 2009 when I began blogging my annual poetry reading lists), to wit:

The list is not a portrayal of the type of poetry I favor. In reading poems partly as a practitioner, I just want to know what's out there. I've found that POV to be more elucidating than trying to read through some defined aesthetic gate. The process is not just more educational but also makes for the fabulous moments of welcome discoveries—in 2012, moi DISCOVERIES OF THE YEAR include Lucille Clifton (late to the party, I know), Ron Padgett (really late to the party, I know), Richard Froude, S.S. Prasad, Daniela Olszewska, and all the poets in the anthology AS IF IT FELL FROM THE SUN: AN ETHERDOME ANTHOLOGY: TEN YEARS OF WOMEN’S WRITING, edited by Colleen Lookingbill & Elizabeth Robinson and featuring Merle Bachman, Faith Barrett, Margaret Butterfield, Erica Carpenter, Valerie Coulton, Caroline Crumpacker, Susanne Dyckman, Kelly Everding, Renata Ewing, Amanda Field, Kate Greenstreet, Anne Heide, Brydie MPherson Kuchi, Erica Lewis, Susan Manchester, Linda Norton, Roberta Olson, Megan Pruiett, Lisa Rappoport, Sarah Suzor, and Stacy Szymaszek. For the latter, the sum of the anthology was greater than adding up individual poets’ merits because of the superb editorial direction.

My ethical desire is to read every poem, which means I often randomly grab from a huge TO-READ pile (which includes but is not limited to the review copy list for Galatea Resurrects). I also end up reading a few books for unique reasons--like if my local library stocks a new poetry book, I check it out in order to prove there's demand for poetry...and then inevitably read it before I return it. I also notice that I read Gary Snyder more than my actual interest in him because his books are often at the local public library sales.

Yet again, I avoided reading Ron Silliman whose work I much admire!  All I can say is that I noticed that his To-Be-Read books were all hidden by other piles.  Sometimes, I read just whatever is most convenient to be picked up!  Must redress or at least randomize those piles!

Did I like every book I read on this list? Nope, but that's irrelevant. Even the most banal poem has a place in this wonderland-landscape of Poetry. All poems are welcome to Moi. And contrary to would-be pundits' proclamations, THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH POEMS.

Here then is the poetic Relished W(h)ine List for 2012, complete with some brief notes on them to the extent I was moved to comment at the time I read them—Moi is also what she reads:


RAMBO GOES TO IDAHO, poems by Scott Abels (one of youse Peeps please review this young—I assume he’s young—man’s debut poetry collection, please. It’s a lot of fun!)

NOTWITHSTANDING SHORING, FLUMMOX, poems by Emily Abendroth

THREE COLUMN TABLE, poems by Harold Abramowitz

MY LOVE IS A DEAD ARCTIC EXPLORER, poems by Paige Ackerson-Kiely

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

THE LOST COUNTRY OF SIGHT, poems by Neil Aitken

TONTO’S REVENGE, poems by Adam Aitken

FILAMENT SENSE, poems by William Allegrezza (wonderful, but everything he writes is fabulous)

MATCHING SKIN, poems by Shirlette Ammons

PRINCESS OF THE WORLD IN LOVE, poems by Stan Apps (clever!)

THE DOOR, poems by Margaret Atwood

EVERY DRESS A DECISION, poems by Elizabeth Austen

SCARED TEXT, poems by Eric Baus

THE BUDDHIST, memoir/poetry by Dodie Bellamy (interesting to read right after THE BUDDHIST Rachel Levitsky’s THE STORY OF MY ACCIDENT IS OURS. The coincidence resulted in me wishing there was a little of Levitsky’s in THE BUDDHIST and little more of Bellamy’s in THE STORY …)

NOTES FROM IRRELEVANCE, poems by Anselm Berrigan (a lovely wash of energy)

BODY OF WATER, poems by Erin M. Bertram

THE SILVER BOOK, poems by Jen Bervin (enchanting)

THE WHITE MUSEUM, poems by George Bilgere (better than Billy Collins at writing those Billy Collins poems)

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

EUNOIA, poems by Christian Bok (fabuloso!)

QUARRTSILUNI: MUTATING THE SIGNATURE, edited by Dave Bonta and Beth Adams (another stand-out in indie publishing)

HANDIWORK, poems by Amaranth Borsuk (some wonderful lines, wonderful stitches…)

IF NOTHING ELSE, poems by Harold Bowes

OUR LADY OF THE RUINS, poems by Traci Brimhall

ADVICE FOR LOVERS, poems by Julian Talamantez Brolaski (Impressive. Worthy of much attention so, Peeps, pay attention to this book!)

WILLIAM BRONK: BURSTS OF LIGHT: THE COLLECTED LATER POEMS, Ed. by David Clippinger (especially as it’s a “collected,” this book made me so HAPPY! It makes me so happy to see a poet get it right … among other things, it validates a lifetime of poetic struggle, and that’s never easy. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

RUST OR GO MISSING, poems by Lily Brown

NDAKINNA: OUR LAND, poems by Joseph Bruchac

POETS’ GUIDE TO AMERICA, poems by John F. Buckley & Martin Ott

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

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

PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING, poems by Cris Cheek (well-wrought)

APHORIA, poems by Jackie Clark

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON 1965-2010, Edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser (have never really paid attention to her work until this volume. And now I’m a fan. Deeply and satisfyingly intellectual. Worthwhile life-poems-life…!)

MINIATURES, poems by Meredith Cole

COLEMAN HAWKINS ORNETTE HAWKINGS, poems by Norma Cole

THE APPLE THAT ASTONISHED PARIS, poems by Billy Collins (this version contained a “new foreword,” which ended up being my favorite part of the book for talking about the period when he was a newbie poet and met people who encouraged him)

THE PRIMORDIAL DENSITY PERTURBATION, poem by Stephen Collis

TRANSCENDENTAL TELEMARKETER, poems by Beth Copeland

THE ARCADIA PROJECT: NORTH AMERICAN POSTMODERN PASTORAL, Edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep

GLASS IS REALLY A LIQUID, poems by Bruce Covey

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

THRONE by Michael Cross

ANGLES OF INCIDENTS, poems by Jon Curley (a fabulous ear! Truly wonderful!)

EARLIER LIVES, poems by Sara Daile

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

ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE, poems by James Davies and photography by Simon Taylor (deceptive. Despite its slim and small chap-iness, has a huge expanse. Admirable)

THE ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW, Spring 2012, Eds. Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis and Gerald Maa

HITLER’S MUSTACHE, poems by Peter Davis (unique)

BURDEN OF SOLACE, poems by Teneice Durrant Delgado

A COINCIDENCE OF WANTS by Michelle Detorie

HERE AND NOW, poems by Stephen Dunn

DIADEM: SELECTED POEMS by Marosa Di Giorgio, Trans. by Adam Giannelli

EYELID LICK, poems by Donald Dunbar (interesting technique)

DRAFT 108: BALLAD AND GLOSS, poems by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

PITCH: DRAFTS 77-95, poems by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

DRAFT 96: VELOCITY, poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (fabulous. energetic in rhythm and powerful in content)

LOST BODY, poems by Terry Ehret

YEAR OF REVERSIBLE LOSS, poems-memoir by Norma Farber (stunning. Makes me now go look into her other poems which I’ve never read)

CHELTENHAM, poems by Adam Fieled (music dynamited)

WHEN YOU BIT, poems by Adam Fieled (as ever from this poet, quite stellar)

ELSEPLACE, poems by Laurie Filipelli

MAYBE A PAINTER, poems by Christina Fisher (nice social-ness)

WHEN WE EXPECT TO SEE YOU SOON, poems by Michael Ford

SHEER INDEFINITE: SELECTED POEMS 1991-2011 by Skip Fox (fabulous)

LIKE THE PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD, poems by Jon Francis

FABRIC, poems by Richard Froude (wow. a BIG discovery of a profound writer. Brilliant poet)

HAVE, poems by Marc Gaba (the attention to the poetic line is so evident and well-wrought it became inspirational enough to warrant a Galatea Resurrects review)

SHE RETURNS TO THE FLOATING WORLD, poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey (charmed)

YOUR INVITATION TO A MODEST BREAKFAST, poems by Hannah Gamble

RUSSIA IN 17 OBJECTS, poems by Julie Gard

From IDYLLS & RUSHES, poems by Susana Gardner (enchanting. Feyness with a steel spine)

HAIKU AND TANKA HARVEST by Victor P. Gendrano

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

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)

SAPPHIC SONGS: SEVENTEEN TO SEVENTY, poems by Elsa Gidlow

NEWCOMER CAN’T SWIM, poems by Renee Gladman

MAJAKOVSKIJ EN TRAGEDY by Johannes Goransson

SANCTA, book-length poem by Andrew Grace

CALLED FOR YOU, poems by Kate Greenstreet

AUFGABE #11, literary journal edited by E. Tracy Grinnell, Julian T. Brolawski and erica kaufman which includes a usefully educational section on Salvadoran poetry edited by guest editor Christian Nagler

MESSAGES: POEMS & INTERVIEW by Piotr Gwiazda

SEASONS AT EAGLE POND, essays/memoir by Donald Hall

THE BODY DOUBLE: A LONG POEM by Jared Harel

CRAZY BRAVE, memoir by Joy Harjo (a poet’s memoir indeed)

SLEEPS WITH KNIVES, poems by Laramie Harlow

DIORAMA OF A PEOPLE BURNING, poems by Bradley Harrison

THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Robert Hass (While I’ve intellectually understood Hass’ earlier collections to be achievements, I never got into his poems until the newer poems in this book, which is a bow to his poetic prowess because I don’t think he could have so masterfully pulled off those poems without having learned much from living and writing poems over the years—this is one example of why I so like reading Selecteds and Collecteds, because these types of books show me something about the poet’s macro versus the micros of individual smaller collections or poems.)

LAND OF CIRCLE: WRITINGS COLLECTED FROM THE LAND, poetry and prose by Linda M. Hasselstrom

WE CUM ::: COME IN THE YIELD FIELDS AMONGST STATUES WITH INTERIOR ARMS, poems by j/j hastain (consistently fabulous in making fresh the love and/or erotic poem)

SYMPTOTIC LOVER // THERMODYNAMIC VENTS, poems by j/j hastain

LONG PAST THE PRESENCE OF COMMON, poems by j/j/ hastain

QUEER PHYLACTERY, poems by j/j hastain

NEW FORMS AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE PRESSURIZED LIBERTINE MONK, poems by j/j hastain

FIFTEEN POEMS by Bobbie Louise Hawkins

BANDIT, poems by Jared Hayes

SEDNA, poems by Michael Helsem (deceptively lyrical. At times, funny)

VERSE. Vol. 27, Nos. 2 & 3 (2012), poetry journal co-edited by Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki (includes John Olson and reading his poems in this issue just reminds me of how so many try to write as he does and only end up being poetasters relative to Olson’s mastery. I adore the opening paragraph to one poem, “Diamonds” for beginning with the sentence “I don’t think much of diamonds” only to end with “This is why I wear binoculars, and enjoy riding in elevators.” So much happens between those two sentences and they sing even as they grin.)

EVERYONE HAS A MOUTH, poems by Ernst Herbeck

LAST EDITED [INSERT TIME HERE], poems byYa-Wen Ho

ROUNDING THE HUMAN CORNERS, poems by Linda Hogan (a rewarding read)

ENGINE FOR EMPIRE, poems by Cathy Park Hong

LANGSTON HUGHES, NANCY CUNARD & LOUSIE THOMPSON: POETRY, POLITICS & FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, correspondence and poetry edited by Anne Donlon

MATERIAL GIRL, poems by Laura Jaramillo

SECRET WEAPON: SELECTED LATE POEMS by Eugen Jebeleanu, Trans. by Matthew Zapruder and Radu Ioanid

REBIRTH OF WONDER: POEMS OF THE COMMON LIFE by David M. Johnson (first book of poetry read in 2012)

PERSPECTIVES ON A GRAFTED TREE: THOUGHTS FOR THOSE TOUCHED BY ADOPTION, poetry anthology edited by Patricia Irwin Johnston

HALF-LIVES, poems by Erica Jong

GEMOLOGY, poems by Megan Kaminski (gems indeed!)

HUMANIMAL, multi-genre meditative text by Bhanu Kapil

VISION OF THE RETURN, poems by Amin Khan, Translated by Dawn-Michelle Baude

THE READER, conceptual poetry by Marton Koppany (actually, I thought of Rubinstein when I read this slim, appealing chap. Also brilliant!)

MODULATIONS, visual conceptual poetry by Marton Koppany (Marton is truly one of my favorite poets. Because his output always enchants!)

THE GULAG ARKIPELAGO by Sean Labrador y Manzano (admirable energy!)

I, THE WORST OF ALL, poems by Estela Lamat, Trans. by Michael Leong (magnificent!)

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

PLAGIARIST, poems by Pamela L. Laskin

THUNDERBIRD, poems by Dorothea Lasky

THE COUNTRY ROAD, poems by James Laughlin (there are many moments of pleasure in this collection—a type of pleasure specifically afforded by age’s wisdom)

PHYLLA OF JOY, poems by Karen An-Hwei Lee

CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE, poems by Michael Leong (cheerfully imaginative!)

WORDS ON EDGE, poems by Michael Leong (a consistently intelligent poetic presence)

GREEN IS FOR WORLD, poems by Juliana Leslie

THE STORY OF MY ACCIDENT IS OURS, novella by Rachel Levitsky (interesting to read this right after THE BUDDHIST by Dodie Bellamy. The coincidence resulted in me wishing there was a little of Levitsky’s in THE BUDDHIST and little more of Bellamy’s in THE STORY …)

SEVEN CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES AND OBITUARY 2004. THE JOY OF COOKING (AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING THEORY FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE], poetry by Tan Lin (love how Tan Lin’s works make moi slow-think)

ON POEMS ON, poems by Sandra Liu

AS IF IT FELL FROM THE SUN: AN ETHERDOME ANTHOLOGY: TEN YEARS OF WOMEN’S WRITING, Edited by Colleen Lookingbill & Elizabeth Robinson, featuring Merle Bachman, Faith Barrett, Margaret Butterfield, Erica Carpenter, Valerie Coulton, Caroline Crumpacker, Susanne Dyckman, Kelly Everding, REnata Ewing, Amanda Field, Kate Greenstreet, Anne Heide, Brydie MPherson Kuchi, Erica Lewis, Susan Manchester, Linda Norton, Roberta Olson, Megan Pruiett, Lisa Rappoport, Sarah Suzor, and Stacy Szymaszek (I can’t say enough great things about this anthology. It is intense, gorgeous, moving, smart, …. ABSOLUTELY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!)

DARWIN, prose poem by Tony Lopez

OBSERVE THE LARK, poems by Katie Louchheim

TRISM, poems by Rebecca Loudon (high energy!)

OLD WAYS TO FOLD NEW PAPER, poems by Leza Lowitz (fabulous, especially as a debut collection)

SOME MATH, poems by Bill Luoma (the funniest “sound poems” I’ve ever experienced. Like, from “The Concept of Math”: A waffle lives in the universe / like your ass in juicy velour. / What determines your ass you ask? / The construction of the bevatron in Berkeley. Or, from “Some Math”: The naughties of quaranta / of the tenera of rapit2a / of his vostra Zed il donkey / the one of localizzo of riflessione I gave convolusis / I gave them a cut of the dulie.)

THE PRACTICE OF RESIDUE, poems by Kimberly Lyons

PARTYKNIFE, poems by Dan Magers (rollickin’ energy!)

SLOT, poems by Jill Magi

SAY SO, poems by Dora Malech (includes the poem “The Station” which is so clever and emotional that I know it’ll be one of my most pleasurable poem-reads this year!)

CUPCAKE ROYALE, poems by Sarah Mangold (Sarah always has such a pleasingly deft touch)

THE STEEL VEIL, poems by Jack Marshall

CITY, poems by C.J. Martin (brief chap, but highly effective!)

ENOUGH, poems by Chris Martin

RE-, poems by Kristi Maxwell

CLOUD COMPUTING, poems by Josh May

SILVER, poems by Jason McCall (a pleasing debut)

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

RE VEILED (A TAPADAS TALE), poems by jim mccrary (luminous)

CLAY FEET / WIRE WINGS, poems by John N. McDowell (wonderful!)

CEMETERY CHESS: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Sandy McIntosh (Sandy is one of those poets who deserve more attention—I don’t really know of anyone doing the combo of surrealism and humor that he does, and does so deftly. Nor am I biased simply because he has poems here dedicated to my husband and my dogs as well as another poem entitled “Eileen R. Tabios”….read him, Peeps: he’s worth the attention!)

YELLOW FIELD 6, poetry and arts journal curated by Edric Mesmer (stand-out in indie publishing)

YELLOW FIELD, October 2012, literary/arts journal curated by Edric Mesmer (a stellar effort!)

YELLOW FIELD (September 2011), Curated by Edric Mesmer (fabulous—especially the essay by Rachel Blau DuPlessis about Robert Creeley helping her off the stage during an H.D. conference versus Allen Ginsberg’s boorish “Get on with it…!”)

PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS, poems by Philip Metres (absolutely stunning. Stunningly stunned.)

THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF MY PAST SORROW, poems by Jesse Millner

AFTER URGENCY, poems by Rusty Morrison (persuasive!)

ALL STEEL, poems by Lori Anderson Moseman

AN INVOCATION FOR NEW WINTER IN THE YEAR TWENTY-THIRTEEN, poem viz card-broadside by Sheila E. Murphy (lovely annual)

ENIGMA AND LIGHT, poems by David Mutschlecner

BOOK OF CHANGES, poems by Paul Naylor

INFINITE VARIATIONS, poems by Marci Nelligan (the rubbing together of the Origin of the Species with the Old Testament is certainly a worthy concept)

DISPATCH, collaborative poems by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro (excellent!)

HOMEMADE POEMS by Lorine Niedecker (charming, particularly as reproduced handwritten chap originally made by poet for Cid Corman)

AS LONG AS TREES LAST, poems by Hoa Nguyen (long admired the tensility of her poems. She makes it look easy, this making of poems as flexible steel)

TRANSFER, poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

SARD, poems by Philip Byron Oakes (a cool book!)

CATCH LIGHT by Sarah O’Brien (lucid, luminous, wise, gorgeous….)

LARYNX GALAXY, poems by John Olson (so multi-layered and multi-referential in a loose way so that disjunction always maintains an inherent harmony. Arguably my favorite 2012 poetry read)

CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska (deeply satisfying read)

NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Ron Padgett (I’m late to the party—but with this book, I officially become a Ron Padgett fan. This is the 1995 book published by Godine)

SILVER ROOF TANTRUM, poems by Naomi Buck Palagi

PERSONATIONSKIN, poems by Karl Parker (admirably expansive)

POEMS 1955-1959 AND AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Boris Pasternak

MIGRITUDE, poetry and performance texts by Shailja Patel (Leny, I can see why and appreciate how you related this to moi BRICK! Wonderful project, and superbly edited by someone whose name always comes up swiftly in moi mind when I think of editors with integrity: Sunyoung Lee of Kaya)

BLACK BIRDS : BLUE HORSE, poems by Natalie Peeterse

HOOFS, poems by Holly Pester (love its energy!)

GOAT IN THE SNOW, poems by Emily Pettit

DRIVING MONTANA, ALONE, poems by Katie Phillips (what a wonderful project! Yes, the poems are nicely done but the publication of it is fabulous as the poems are interspersed with nice black-and-white photos)

SILENT PICTURES RECOGNIZE THE WORLD, poems by Wanda Phipps

THE GIRLS OF PECULIAR, poems by Catherine Pierce

THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE, poems by Marge Piercy

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

LEARNING TO DRIVE, essays by Katha Pollitt

100 POEMS by SS Prasad (sufficiently mischievous to keep one’s interest)

EDOM, poems by Christopher William Purdom

BANANA MAGNET, poems by Christopher William Purdom

COMMON TIME, poems by Chris Pusateri (fabulous, deeply engaging, absurdly intelligent and enchantingly witty—which is why it just became the third title I’m reviewing for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects!)

IN WAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLD, poems by Michael Rerick (sharp and smart)

PLAIN SPEAK / SWEET SPEAK, poems by G. Emil Reutter and Phil Premeau (interesting concept)

FOR THE CITY THAT NEARLY BROKE ME, poems by Barbara Jane Reyes (ya know: I think someone should review—compare—this book with Maged Zaher’s THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN’T CALL ME)

LOVE POEMS by Rene Ricard with drawings by Robert Hawkins

CHINOISERIE, poems by Karen Rigby (lovely lovelies. Indeed, the language can get rhapsodically luscious and/or delicious)

PUTI/WHITE, poems by Patria Rivera

BONESHEPHERDS, poems by Patrick Rosal (ay! Ket nagsayaat met daytoy nga Ilocano!)

THIRTY-FIVE NEW PAGES, conceptual poetry by Lev Rubinstein, Trans. by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky (note-card poems by one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism—simply: brilliant!)

MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY: COLLECTED LECTURES by Mary Ruefle (wonderfully surprising)

KEY BRIDGE, poems by Ken Rumble

ON THE TRACKS OF WILD GAME, poems by Tomaz Salamun, Trans. by Sonja Kravanja (So intelligent. So sly. Intriguing and fabulous read)

JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton (another re-read as it never fails to satisfy)

THE PINK, poems by Jared Schickling (challenging, then rewarding)

MEMORY CARDS by Susan M. Schultz (fabulously wide-ranging in scope, despite diminutive size)

THE SOFT PLACE, poems by Kate Schapira (lovely)

HERE IS A MINI-PARADE, poems by Kate Schapira and Daniela Olszewska

FROM THE SOFT PLACE/THINGS TO DO IN PERSONFORM, poetry broadside by Kate Schapira and Daniela Olszewska

A VOICE HEARS YOU FROM MYSTERIOUS PLACES, audio-video CD collaboration of poems, visual art and sound by Barry Schwabsky (voice and poems, except for one translation of a Paul Eluard poem) and Marianne Nowottny (gorgeous, lyrical, evocative!) With a very on-point introduction by Kenneth Goldsmith!

SELECTED POEMS by Harvey Shapiro

EARTHQUAKE CAME TO HARLEM, poems by Jackie Sheeler

ROUGH, AND SAVAGE, poems by Sun Yung Shin

MAY APPLE DEEP, poems by Michael Sikkema (fabulous po-mo pastoral. Philosophical music)

MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL, poems by Sandra Simonds

THE WHITE CALF KICKS, poems by Deborah Slicer

BLOOD DAZZLER, poems by Patricia Smith (Magnificent. With this book, I am made a fan of Patricia Smith—finally, I get all the accolades I keep hearing about her…and I am happy to get it!)

DUENDE, poems by Tracy K. Smith

LIFE ON MARS, poems by Tracy K. Smith (interesting to contrast it with her prior book DUENDE. While these are two good books, LIFE ON MARS contains more … duende…)

REGARDING WAVE, poems by Gary Snyder

TURTLE ISLAND, poems with prose by Gary Snyder

GUESTBOOK, poems by Rick Snyder

WELL THEN THERE NOW, poems and poetics by Juliana Spahr

20 LOVE POEMS FOR 10 MONTHS by Mary Austin Speaker

PLURAL, poems by Christopher Stackhouse (liked it enough to blurb it!)

LAGNIAPPE, poems by Jill Stengel (a feat and a feast!)

THE WRITER ON HER WORK, VOLUME 1, (essays by Anne Tyler, Joan Didion, Mary Gordon, Nancy Milford, Honor Moore, Michele Murray, Margaret Walker, Susan Griffin, Alice Walker, Ingrid Bengis, Toni Cade Bambara, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Janet Burroway, Muriel Rukeyser and Gail Godwin) Edited by Janet Sternburg

THE HUDSON LINE, poems by Margo Taft Stever

STELE, poems by Cole Swensen

HYPERGLOSSIA, poems by Stacy Szymaszek

5 SHADES OF GRAY by Eileen R. Tabios

the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios and j/j hastain

MAO’S PEARS, poem by Kenny Tanemura (witty, amusing…just well done!)

APART, poetry/non-fiction by Catherine Taylor

PLEASURE, poems by Brian Teare

THE IMPORTANT THING IS … CARD GAME, poetry card game by Marjorie Tesser

PALM TO PINE, poems by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux (such a good read with nice, intimate feel!)

KATE & SONIA (IN THE MONTHS BEFORE OUR SECOND DAUGHTER’S BIRTH), poems by Dan Thomas-Glass (a moving and pleasurable read)

EVERY POSSIBLE BLUE, poems by Matthew Thorburn

MR. MAGOO, poems by Steve Tills (more admirable energy!)

POST MAIDEN, poems by Steve Tills (adept and engaging!)

ON A PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS, AD 1960-2012 by Sotere Torregian (admirable life-source/energy!)

DECK OF DEEDS, poems by Rodrigo Toscano (smart)

THE GREAT ENIGMA: NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Tomas Transtromer, Trans. by Robin Fulton

NATURAL HISTORIES, poems by Leslie Ullman

ARCO IRIS, poems by Sarah Vap

PUERTO RICO, poems by Alejandro Ventura (interesting to see how the interest in visual art enlivens the theme—of course I empathize with this approach)

OBEDIENCE, poems by Chris Vitiello

NERVOUS DEVICE, poems by Catherine Wagner

THE REAL SUBJECT: QUERIES AND CONJECTURES OF JACOB DELAFON WITH SAMPLE POEMS by Keith Waldrop (fabulous & brilliant)

IT CAN BE SOLVED BY WALKING, poems and photographs by Jennifer Wallace (a lotta love in these lyrics. Appreciated the Author’s Note which revealed how the poem takes over the poet)

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 81, Winter 2013, literary journal edited by Kenneth Warren (brilliant!)

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

HOUSE ORGAN No. 79, literary journal edited by Kenneth Warren (ditto: another stand-out in indie publishing)

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 78 Spring 2012, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren (always a satisfying feast)

ONE SLEEPS THE OTHER DOESN’T, poems by Jacqueline Waters (a pleasurable reading)

RING OF BONE: LEW WELCH COLLECTED POEMS, Editor Donald Allen (it was most useful to me when I also considered the poems to have been poetics required to create what, for me, was a perfect poem in the book – the title poem “Ring of Bone”. Also was encouraged by this to begin what will be a new poetry manuscript, J. The whole thing about Welch’s “language is speech” was a push; as regards “J”, there is so much I’ve long wanted to say but … had not. So, as ever, Poetry begins as in Poetry verbs action.)

“THE SEA UNDER THE HOUSE” THE SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN WIENERS AND CHARLES OLSON, PART I, correspondence and poetry edited by Michael Seth Stewart

“THE SEA UNDER THE HOUSE” THE SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN WIENERS AND CHARLES OLSON, PART II, correspondence and poetry edited by Michael Seth Stewart

A MARZIPAN FACTORY by Grzegorz Wroblewski, Trans. from the Polish by Adam Zdrodowski (glad to have this book out there)

BENDING AT THE ELBOW, poems by Matvei Yankelevich (fabulous. so compelling I ended up reviewing it for Galatea Resurrects)

FURTHER ADVENTURES IN MONOCHROME by John Yau (gold, deeply mined)

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!)

15 CHINESE SILENCES, poems by Timothy Yu (Billy Collins should read this…)

THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN'T CALL ME by Maged Zaher (ya know: I think someone should review—compare—this book with Barbara Jane Reyes’ chap FOR THE CITY THAT NEARLY BROKE ME)

THE SWORDFISH TOOTH, poems by Cynthia Zarin

TRAVELING IN REFLECTED LIGHT, poems by Andrena Zawinski

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

WEATHER IS WHETHER, poems by Harriet Zinnes

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.)

HOOKING THE AUDIENCE BY BEING A WRECK...!

Being prolific means it takes time for certain books to get any particular attention. So I'm pleased to share that my 2007 book, SILENCES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOSS (published by poet-wise men Jukka Pekka Kervinen and Peter Ganick) just received a review in Litter Magazine (whose issues are being archived by the British Library--sorry, just getting a kick out of this detail!).

SILENCES is one of my "experimental" efforts and it was kewl to see such a fulsome read by the reviewer Nicholas Spatafora (who read it like it was an autobiography, indeed!). His own experimental, novelistic review is much appreciated. His is a legitimate reading even as it has nothing to do with (moi) authorial intent. I was surprised by but deem acceptable the leaps he made such that he concludes that the overall book is a

personal narrative of one woman’s plight to happiness and self-integrity in the aftermath of a shattered romantic involvement.

It's interesting to see how SILENCES' fragmented structure lends itself to such a "novelistic" read. For another type of review, but equally fulsome, Thomas Fink reviewed it in Otoliths. Hope these reads encourage more reads of SILENCES..., one of my more obscure (hah) books.


P.S. I'm honored that in response to an email thanking him for his review, Spatafora sent me an excerpt from a New York Times article quoting from (hello fello Marsh Hawk-er!) Philip Lopate:

The author Phillip Lopate complains that the problem with confessional writing is that people don’t confess enough. And I agree. The biggest mistake new writers make is going to the computer wearing a three-piece suit. They craft love letters about their wonderful parents, spouses, children and they share upbeat anecdotal slices of life. This rarely inspires brilliance or self-insight. Drama, conflict and tension are more compelling, especially when the piece starts with your “I” narrator about to fall off a cliff (metaphorically, of course). It’s counterintuitive, but qualities that make you likable and popular in real life — good looks, wild success, happy marriage, lovely home, healthy confidence — will make a reader despise you. The more of a wreck you are from the start, the more the audience is hooked.

I guess I sufficiently portrayed "myself" in the book as a wreck!  Woot!


P.P.S. I've written two (perhaps more; my memory is sketchy as, ahem, I've been prolific) books that use the words "autobiography" or "biography" and yet have nothing to do with moi life. But I'm not offended when reviewers can't separate the persona from the author (happens often with moi) -- I take that to mean something about the powered intimacy of what I wrote, even as I'm usually personally flustered by the effect (if not occasionally aghast). Comes with the territory and all that ... a point I'm belaboring now, by the by, because I can't tell you how many (so many!) conversations I've had with poets who simply can't abide a read of their work if it transcends their authorial intent....There's a Point 101 that's being missed here, ain't there...?

RIDICULOUS THAT I DON'T HAVE BALLS!

My New Year's Resolution is to spend more time cooking.  [PAUSE for snorts around the world at the news...]  So, yes, I decided to spend the first day of the year baking!  This is a BIG DEAL as the last time I baked desert, it was a different century.  Anyhoo...I naturally thought I shouldn't be overly ambitious and so try something simple.  I decided on what are also among my favorite cookies in the world:

     Mexican Wedding Cookies!

If you click on the link, you will see that, indeed, it is a very simple recipe.  Very.  Simple.

The Chatelaine, of course, needs a lot of work in the kitchen.  So, instead of creating this

she ended up creating this:

That's right, the dough didn't "ball" up!  It ended up flattening to be cookies!  I would later sprinkle the same white powdered sugar atop them but they still reflected flat earths instead of globes.

I was like, WTF (really: I was cussin')!  I mean, how can I possibly not end up with balls!

The hubby looked at the result and dubbed them

     "Mexican Engagement Cookies"

Fortunately for him, he ducked and missed the pot I threw at his head (just kidding).

Anyway, I showed a house guest -- who is very experienced in the kitchen -- the recipe and asked how I could possibly have messed up such a simple SIMPLE recipe.  She, too, was baffled!

Then she had the experience to ask, did you melt the butter first in the microwave?  Well, yes.  Because I took the butter from the freezer and so thought I'd soften them.  IS THAT NOT LOGICAL?!!!!  But Ah ha!  Apparently, melted vs. soft butter precludes the flour from being moldable into balls.

Really?  And I was supposed to know that, how?

Now, for any other year, I would have flung up my hands and thought, So much for that New Year Resolution!

But have no fear, Dear 9 billion Peeps, I shall try again with other recipes as the year unfolds.  Let us see just how many I can ... bastardize, I mean, poeticize...!

POETRY PURCHASED IN 2012

For 2012, I bought 83 books of poetry by, on and/or edited by poets, as well as books in other genres (e.g. biographies) authored by poets.  This is a 77% increase over the prior year's purchases of 47 titles, but not impressive given 2011's low threshold.  Again, I can do better.

I bought from bookstores, publishers, Amazon.com and other online site, St. Helena's wonderful used bookstore Main Street Books and library sales.  What this year reveals is that Kindle didn't take off for me; I stopped using it after a few months of novelty and so only "purchased" four books for Kindle. 

Nota Bene: Money doesn't reflect desire when it comes to my poetry-buying. While this list offers poets whose works I like and thus acquire, it also reflects books bought from no particularly strong desire to include in my poetry library (jest curiosity). For instance, some books were bought at a local public library sale for cents on the dollar, a price that makes me buy poetry without a particularly strong interest in such acquisition. Also, I am fortunate to have alternative access to poetry books I actually will cherish, whether through gifts, trades or even review copies for Galatea Resurrects. Nonetheless, a list exists of my BOUGHT POETRY OR BOOKS BY POETS and so here it is for 2012. Unless stated otherwise, the books are poetry collections:


FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

THE HEART OF A WOMAN by Maya Angelou

BORDERLANDS/ LA FRONTERA by Gloria Anzaldua

THE DOOR by Margaret Atwood

UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett

THE BUDDHIST by Dodie Bellamy

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

OUR LADY OF THE RUINS: POEMS by Traci Brimhall

THE RING AND THE BOOK by Robert Browning with engravings by Carl Schultheiss

HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE by Jane Brox

EROS: THE BITTERSWEET by Anne Carson

DISAPPOINTED PSALMS by Brian Clements

COLEMAN HAWKINS ORNETTE COLEMAN by Norma Cole

DIANE DI PRIMA: THE OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Ana Bozicevic (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

EDWARD DORN: THE OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, Edited by Lindsey Freer (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, co-edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad

YEAR OF REVERSIBLE LOSS by Norma Farber

DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust

LIKE THE PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD by Jon Francis

FABRIC by Richard Froude

HAVE by Marc Gaba

SAPPHIC SONGS: SEVENTEEN TO SEVENTY by Elsa Gidlow

CITY OF CORNERS by John Godfrey

SCENTED RUSHES by Nada Gordon

LIFE WORK by Donald Hall

SEASONS AT EAGLE POND by Donald Hall

CRAZY BRAVE: A MEMOIR by Joy Harjo

THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Robert Hass

LANGSTON HUGHES, NANCY CUNARD & LOUSIE THOMPSON: POETRY, POLITICS & FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, Edited by Anne Donlon (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

BIRTHDAY LETTERS by Ted Hughes

SELECTED POEMS IN FIVE SETS BY Laura Riding Jackson

SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS #9, Ed. Brian Johnson

PERSPECTIVES ON A GRAFTED TREE: THOUGHTS FOR THOSE TOUCHED BY ADOPTION, poetry anthology edited by Patricia Irwin Johnston

HALF LIVES by Erica Jong

JEW BOY by Alan Kaufman

WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION by Brenda Knight

JOANNE KYGER: LETTERS TO & FROM, Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Joanne Kyger (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER: A LIFE REDISCOVERED, memoir by Patrick Lane

THE COUNTRY ROAD by James Laughlin

TRISM by Rebecca Loudon

OLD WAYS TO FOLD NEW PAPER by Leza Lowitz

MUTATING THE SIGNATURE: QUARRTSILUNI, journal edited by Dana Guthrie Martin and Dave Bonta

CLAY FEET / WIRE WINGS, poems by John N. McDowell

CAMPOCORTO by Peter Meinke with drawings by Jeanne Meinke

PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS by Philip Metres

COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

THE SEPARATE NOTEBOOKS by Czeslaw Milosz, Translated by Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky

LORINE NIEDECKER: HOMEMADE POEMS, Edited by John Harkey (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

TRANSFER by Naomi Shihab Nye

LARYNX GALAXY: PROSE POEMS by John Olson

CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska

NEW & SELECTED POEMS (1995) by Ron Padgett

POEMS 1955-1959 AND AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Boris Pasternak

MIGRITUDE by Shailja Patel

THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Madge Piercy

SYLVIA PLATH: A BIOGRAPHY by Linda K. Wagner-Martin

EZRA POUND AND HIS WORLD by Peter Ackroyd

LOVE POEMS by Rene Ricard

PUTI/WHITE by Patria Rivera

BONESHEPHERDS by Patrick Rosal

MICHAEL RUMAKER: SELECTED LETTERS, Edited by Megan Paslawski (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

SELECTED POEMS OF RUMI, Translated by Reynolds A. Nicholson

JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton

THE SOFT PLACE by Kate Schapira

HERE IS A MINI-PARADE by Kate Schapira and Daniela Olszewska

LIFE ON MARS: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith

DUENDE: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith

REGARDING WAVE by Gary Snyder

THE TULIP SACRAMENT by Annah Sobelman

WELL THEN THERE NOW by Juliana Spahr

5 SHADES OF GRAY by Eileen R. Tabios

SILENCES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOSS by Eileen R. Tabios

DEADLINE POET by Calvin Trillin

MARINA TSVETAEVA: THE DOUBLE BEAT OF HEAVEN AND HELL, biography by Lily Feiler

NATURAL HISTORIES by Leslie Ullman

THE REAL SUBJECT: QUERIES AND CONJECTURES OF JACOB DELAFON WITH SAMPLE POEMS by Keith Waldrop

MORE ADVENTURES IN MONOCHROME by John Yau

JOHN WIENERS & CHARLES OLSON: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, Edited by Michael Seth Stewart (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

EATING IN THE UNDERWORLD by Rachel Zucker


Bought from Kindle (though these are free):
POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

ILIAD by Homer

THE ODYSSEY by Homer

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

BLOG-FILE: 2011 POETRY PURCHASED

I guess I didn’t blog-file either my 2011 purchases of poetry collections or books in other genres by poets. So here it is, a total of 47 titles purchased, which is too little for being about half of the purchases from the prior year:

2011 Poetry Purchased (47 titles):

GRAVE RADIANCE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON by Sherman Alexie

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

HOMECOMING: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS by Julia Alvarez

THE DESECRATION OF DOVES by Arlene Ang

A WORLDLY COUNTRY: NEW POEMS by John Ashbery

RADIUS OF LIGHT by Joshua Auerbach

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett

UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett

LOVELY, RASPBERRY by Aaron Belz

bough breaks by Tamiko Beyer

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 1 (text) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 2 (notes to poems) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

THE CURVED PLANKS: POEMS, A BILINGUAL EDITION by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Hoyt Rogers

THE BEAUTIFUL LESSON OF THE I by Frances Brent

ATLANTIS by Louis Dudek

A FURTHER RANGE by Robert Frost

THE ERRANCY by Jorie Graham

FIELD WORK – NOTES, SONGS, POEMS 1997-2010 by David Hadbawnik

MEMOIR AND ESSAY by Michael Gottlieb

TIME AND MATERIALS: POEMS 1997-2005 by Robert Hass

PRACTICAL WATER by Brenda Hillman

THE BOOK OF MIRRORS by Frieda Hughes

STONEPICKER AND THE BOOK OF MIRRORS: POEMS by Frieda Hughes

FABULAE by Joy Katz

ADOPTION PAPERS by Jackie Kay

OBSERVE THE LARK by Katie Louchheim

AREAS OF FOG by Joseph Massey

FULL HORIZON by Bruce McEver

SEVEN NOTEBOOKS by Campbell McGrath

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007, Guest Editor Heather McHugh

GILGAMESH by Stephen Mitchell

SO LATE, SO SOON: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Carol Moldaw

CULTURE OF ONE by Alice Notley

ROAD SONG FOR by Lars Palm

ELEVATORS by Rena Rosenwasser

SMALL SKY by Janice Sapigao

SELECTED POEMS by Harvey Shapiro

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios

THE GREAT ENIGMA: NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Tomas Transtrumer, Trans. by Robin Fulton

A POINT IS THAT WHICH HAS NO PART by Liz Waldner

THE SACRED GEOMETRY OF PEDESTRIANS by Ken Weisner

PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT by Hazel White

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

THE SWORDFISH TOOTH by Cynthia Zarin

TRAVELING IN REFLECTED LIGHT by Andrena Zawinski

BELATED BLOG-FILE: 2010 PURCHASES OF POETRY

For some reason, I’d omitted sometime in early 2011 to blog-file my 2010 purchases of poetry collections or books in other genres by poets. So, here it is below—a total of 93, which is certainly an improvement from my Great Recession buying which only totaled 36 titles in the prior year of 2009. I’m blog-filing it in anticipation of a future post on my poetry purchases for 2012. If I track each year, then I can generate a year to year pattern for reasons still obscure to Moi.

As always, my poetry purchasing list doesn't accurately reflect my poetry interests or tastes.  It just reflects ... what I bought and what I buy often occurs through random circumstances unplanned by Moi.



2010 POETRY PURCHASES:

THE FAR MOSQUE by Kazim Ali

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

A BLUE HAND: THE BEATS IN INDIA, biography by Deborah Baker

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

Belladonna 2011 Subscription: “A Year in the Commons” featuring THE WIDE ROAD by Lyn Hejinian & Carla Harryman; LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning; Belladonna limited edition chapbooks; SEASONS: QUARTETS (RECOMPOSED): WORDS MOVE / MUSIC MOVES: ONLY IN TIME -- THE FOUR SEASONS re-composed by Colette Alexander and Nancy Magarill, THE FOUR QUARTETS re-envisioned by Kristin Prevallet; and SUNDAY, THEORY: A TRANSLATION OF LA THEORIE, UN DIMANCHE (1988, Remue-Menage), a multi-authored, multi-genre (theory, fiction) volume of six Québécois Women: Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Gail Scott, and France Théoret, with short contemporary commentary by a diverse range of writers, and translated by Erica Weitzman, Pophana Brandes et al; edited by Rachel Levitsky and Gail Scott.

ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: SELECTED POEMS OF CHARLES BERNSTEIN

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 1 (text) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 2 (notes to poems) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

DAYS POEM by Allen Bramhall

QUINTESSENCE OF THE MINOR: SYMBOLIST POETRY IN ENGLISH by Garrett Caples

THE COMPLETE STORIES AND POEMS OF LEWIS CARROLL

BEAUTIFUL SIGNOR by Cyrus Cassells

NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Jennifer Clement

THE WHOLE TRUTH by James Cummins

DAYS WE ARE GIVEN by Alice D'Alessio

MIDNIGHT'S GATE, essays by Bei Dao

RESIN by Geri Doran

SONATA MULATTICA by Rita Dove

THE COCKTAIL PARTY by T.S. Eliot

AUTOPSY TURVY, poems by Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason

HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES: FROM INDIOS BRAVOS TO FILIPINOS by Luis H. Francia

VESTIGES OF WAR: THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR AND THE AFTERMATH OF AN IMPERIAL DREAM, 1899-1999, Co-edited by Luis Francia and Angel Velasco Shaw. Contributors include Genara Banzon, Santiago Bose, Ben Cabrera, Renato Constantino, Doreen Fernandez, Eric Gamalinda, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jessica Hagedorn, Reynaldo Ileto, Yong Soon Min, Manuel Ocampo, Paul Pfeiffer, Christina Quisumbing, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Boone Schirmer, Kidlat Tahimik, Mark Twain, and Jim Zwick.

A WORKING GIRL CAN'T WIN AND OTHER POEMS by Deborah Garrison

THE DANCE MOST OF ALL by Jack Gilbert

THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS (Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure and The Triumph of Achilles) by Louise Gluck

THE SEVEN AGES by Louise Gluck

HARD TO PLACE: ONE FAMILYS JOURNEY THROUGH ADOPTION, poetry therapy memoir by Marion Goldstein

STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves

PIGAFETTA IS MY WIFE by Joe Hall

TRAJE DE BODA by Aileen Ibardaloza

TRANCE ARCHIVES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Andrew Joron

BRIGHT STAR: LOVE LETTERS AND POEMS OF JOHN KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE (the Penguin edition after which the movie was made so that introduction is by director Jane Campion)

A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Jewel Kilcheer

STET by Jose Kozer

LIVING UNDER PLASTIC by Evelyn Lau

SHARKS IN THE RIVERS by Ada Limon

ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas

WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY by Clarence Major

GORGEOUS CHAOS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1965-2001 by Jack Marshall

MEETING SOPHIE: A MEMOIR OF ADOPTION by Nancy McCabe

HINGE & SIGN by Heather McHugh

THE GOD OF INDETERMINACY by Sandra McPherson

DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA by Dunya Mikhail

THE WAR WORKS HARD by Dunya Mikhail

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUN: STORIES AND POEMS, 1961-1991 by N. Scott Momaday

WOVEN STONE by Simon J. Ortiz

THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak, Trans. by Eugene M. Kayden with drawings by Bill Greer

FOR A LIVING by Frances Phillips

FAULTY MOTHERING by Elaine Randell

CHILDREN OF DREAMS, memoir by Lorilyn Roberts

LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP by Lisa Robertson

A RADIANCE LIKE WIND OR WATER by Richard Ronan

HEARTWOOD: MEDITATIONS ON SOUTHERN OAKS with poetry by Rumi and photographs by William Guion

UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer

KING OF THE JUNGLE by Zvi A. Sesling

THE SINGERS & THE NOTES by Logan Ryan Smith

PASSAGE THROUGH INDIA, travelogue by Gary Snyder

RIPRAP AND COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS by Gary Snyder

VIEW WITH A GRAIN OF SAND: SELECTED POEMS by Wislawa Szymborska

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios

THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS & NEW 1998-2010 by Eileen R. Tabios

NATIVE GUARD by Natasha Trethewey

HERON/GIRLFRIEND by Jen Tynes

RADHA SAYS by Reetika Vazirani

VIRTUOSO LITERATURE FOR TWO AND FOUR HANDS: NEW POEMS by Diane Wakoski

OVERTIME: SELECTED POEMS by Philip Whalen, Ed. Michael Rothenberg

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

BY PARKED CARS by J.D. Woolery

UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS FORMING A GROUP WAITING TO CROSS by Mark Yakich

EXHIBIT by John Yau

THE SECOND PERSON: POEMS by C. Dale Young

MORE FROM SERIES MAGRITTE by Mark Young