ARSENIC LOBSTER AND MORE!

Gave two visitors yesterday a tour of Moi's mini-chair/mini-book museum and they were … awed. Tee-Hee. So, curating that museum’s collection of course is taking up much of my time. But I still manage to read non-mini books, and here then is the 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.



PUBLICATIONS
COUNTERPART, poems by Elizabeth Robinson (Wow: powerful stuff. I think it’s my favorite book of hers yet … and no doubt will be one of my favorite poetry reads for 2013—it’s sumthin’ that I say that and it’s only early March!)

YRTEMMYS & OTHER POEMS by Edric Mesmer (it’s not unusual sometimes to respond to a poem(s) by saying it’s difficult to understand; but with these poems, which I MUCH ENJOYED, I (also) had the reaction: these poems were difficult to make! All the more kudos to the poet!)

WORK FROM MEMORY. Poetry by Dan Beachy-Quick and Matthew Goulish (excellent!)

* POKING THROUGH THE FABRIC OF THE LIGHT THAT FORMED US: SONGS AND STORIES TO READ IN THE MIRROR, poems by Lora Bloom (laden with charisma)

*  KEPT WOMEN, poems by Kate Durbin (a fabulous deadpan-ness …)

CATASTROPHE THEORY, poems by Susan Yount (energetic and quirky in a good way. a bouncy read)

HANDBOOK FOR WITHDRAWAL, poetry by Erin Virgil (fabulous! go to link)

MINI BOOK, poem by Susan Yount (fabulous! go to link)

THE AUCTION, poem by Aileen Ibardaloza (fabulous! go to link)

LUCK, poem by Charles Bukowski (killer elegiac)

SANCTA, poems by Andrew Grace

3 CAST AFTER BASINSKI, poems by Nava Fader

3 FORMS, poems by Marten Clibbens

GALLOWGLASS, poems by Susan Tichy

OVERPASS, poems by Steve Davenport

* TRAMPS EVERYWHERE, poems by Amina Cain

* FRIED CHICKEN DINNER, poems by Janice Lee

* FUR BIRDS, poems by Michelle Detorie

* SACRILEGION, poems by L. Lamar Wilson

* SAY THAT, poems by Felecia Caton Garcia

* SOLECISM, poems by Rosebud Ben-Oni

* JACK LONDON IS DEAD: CONTEMPORARY EURO-AMERICAN POETRY OF HAWAI’I (AND SOME STORIES), Edited by Susan M. Schultz (a surprising-that-shouldn’t-be-surprising, and pleasing, calmness underpinning this project. A refreshing calmness…)

ARSENIC LOBSTER: POETRY JOURNAL 2013 edited by Susan Yount (I liked every single on of its 52 poems—a treat!)

ECCOLINGUISTICS 2.1, literary journal edited by Jared Schickling (fabulous zine)

YELLOW FIELD 7, literary and arts zine edited by Eric Mesmer (fabulous, as always. So present!)

ON A CLEAR DAY, art monograph by/on Max Gimblett (with one of the best monograph essays I’ve ever read -- this, by another artist, Matt Jones)

CHAIRMANIA: FANTASTIC MINIATURES by George M. Beylerian

CLEAN, novel by Alex Hughes

THE BLACK BOX, novel by Michael Connelly

THE PANTHER, novel by Nelson DeMille

THE LION, novel by Nelson DeMille

TOUCH & GO, novel by Lisa Gardner


WINES
2010 Laura Hartwig cabernet reserva Colchagua Valley
2009 Tarima Hill monastrell Alicante
2009 Dancing Hares cabernet NV
2008 Birbanera Amantis Montecucco Rosso
2010 Layer Cake cabernet
2010 Tres Picos Borsao garnacha
2010 Catena cabernet High Mountain Vines
2009 Domaine De La Janasse Terre D’Argile Cotes Du Rhone