A TWIT ... ER

I'm reading a paper a student (working to master her Master's) wrote on one of my books.  Hegel is cited.  But I had to Wiki a few things in order to really understand the paper.  After I figured out (I think) what the paper is saying, I was really proud of myself for having written what the student said I wrote.  Even though I hadn't known I wrote what the student said I wrote.  Preeen (I think).

MADE WITH LOVE

is the title of my latest mini-book over at SitWithMoi, with the help of a book designed by Dusie's Susana Gardner (see prior post).  It's all so enchanting to ... make things with love!

CELEBRATING DUSI/E!!

I've decided to celebrate Susana Gardner's fabulous publishing project -- I can't think of a better publisher that's melded technology and handmade DIY -- Dusi/e!  The celebration is over at SitWithMoi -- go to the link and, meanwhile, enjoy a taste visually here. 

First one of Susana's collages:

Next, some of the small books she's made, along with some ephemera from a correspondence:

Dusie is just enchanting!

 

IN ADDITION TO THE ROSES, SOME LOVELY THORNS

... AND here’s more relishes viz an update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below before my trip. 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
VOW, poems by Rebecca Hazelton (wonderful opening—a great contemporized poem re mythological Helen)

SISTER, BLOOD AND BONE, poems by Paula Cary (so fabulous—I think of the poems as clever garnets—it became my first review for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects!)

JEALOUS WITNESS, poems by Andrei Codrescu (really powerful. Arguably my favorite collection about effects of Hurricane Katrina because it becomes not just about the specific incident)

ALL THIS FALLING AWAY, poem by Tim Armentrout (pure poetry—a feat! See link!)

MOM—, poem by Craig Cotter (fabulous—see link!)

HAIKU by Ivy Alvarez (fabulous—see link!)

* ON GHOSTS, essay and poetry by Elizabeth Robinson (wonderful!)

ITEMS, poetry/visual art by Tom Jenks (fabulous!)

CIRCLES WITH OPEN ENDS, poems by Diana T. Gamalinda (gems)

POEMS AT WAR by Jose Ma. Espino (powerful for catching the tragedy that is war)

* FROM BEHIND THE BLIND, poems by Robert Murphy (well-done)

PICADILLY OR PARADISE, poems by John Yau and drawings by Trevor Winkfield (fabulous and wonderful production by Ferris Editions)

MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS AND OTHER POEMS by Edith L. Tiempo

A MARZIPAN FACTORY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Grzegorz Wroblewski, Trans. by Adam Zdrodowski

* ADVENTURES IN THE LOST INTERIORS OF AMERICA, poems by William D. Waltz

* YOU ARE NOT DEAD, poems by Wendy Xu

* DIARY OF USE, poems by J. Vera Lee

* HOLD IT DOWN, poems by Gina Myers

* OF THE MISMATCHED TEACUPS, OF THE SINGLE-SERVING SPOON: A BOOK OF FAILURES, poems by Jenny Boully

* I WAS NOT EVEN BORN, poems by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm

* HANDLING DESTINY, poems by Adrian Castro

PLEASURE, poems by Brian Teare

* THE CRANBERRY ISLAND SERIES, poems, photos and autobiographical and poetics prose by Donald Wellman (finely considered writings)

* BY THE HOURS: SELECTED POEMS EARLY & UNCOLLECTED by Eric Hoffman (well done)

WHAT THE HEART CAN BEAR: SELECTED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1979-1993 by Robert Gibb

AT THE TURNING OF THE LIGHT, poems by CB Follett (wonderful descriptive powers)

VISIBLE BONES, poems by CB Follett (wonderful descriptive powers)

ONE BIRD FALLING, poems by CB Follett (wonderful descriptive powers)

SALEM IN SÉANCE, poems by Susana H. Case

COLLECTED POEMS by Enoch Powell

A CUP OF SUN: A BOOK OF POEMS by Joan Walsh Anglund

SONGS OF INNOCENCE (color facsimile of the First Edition with 31 Color Plates) by William Blake

HIKING AT POINT REYES WITH TEN YR. OLD AMAYA, poem by Novis Breckett through “Homes for Poems,” a project of Arts Council Napa Valley and Napa County Poet Laureate Leonore Wilson

BORDERLANDS / LA FRONTERA, Chicana / Women’s studies viz essays and poetry by Gloria Anzaldua

STREETWALKERS OF CUBAO, study by Lourdes A. Muldong-Portus

SEASON’S GREETINGS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: THE COLLECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS CARDS, MESSAGES AND GIFTS, history by Mary Evans Seeley (really well-done. Goes from Coolidge to the 2nd Bush. A second volume should happen—hopefully as well-done as the first—in the future. Because the treatment transcends the holidays and becomes history made accessible)

SIX YEARS, novel by Harlan Coben

THE LAST MINUTE, novel by Jeff Abbott

BLOWN, novel by Francine Matthews

CLOSE TO THE BONE, novel by David Wiltse

DOG, novel by Michelle Herman

THE ICECUTTER’S DAUGHTER, novel by Tracie Peterson


WINES
None. This austerity diet is getting ridiculous.

2014 BOOKS

Yesterday, one of my manuscripts found a publisher--the second title listed below for my now known forthcoming books for 2014:

Reproductions of the Lost Flag: Sculptures (poetry collection--I've blogged about this project before: that's its newest and probably final title)

and

POST ROMANCE: Meditations on Art and Poetry (essay collection)

The only problem with POST ROMANCE is that I thought it was such a good idea I pitched it to a publisher.  But I haven't actually put together the manuscript.  When will I learn to not get in the way of my summer hammock days?!  I didn't spend a single minute on the hammock last summer (and the summer before that) -- I don't think I'll get there this summer, either.  Plus, I hear (hear but don't actually know) it'd be fun to putter around the garden ... like the front garden blooming this way today:

COOKING WITH ART

Done!  Finished the first draft of an art essay due this Friday!  But the writing process made me forget about the pot boiling on the stove.  I was trying to boil some sweet potatoes for moi beloved dawg Achilles.  Them potatoes didn't boil!  They melted!

C'est la vie! 

WRITING ART

Working on two essays concurrently (coz they're due at the same time) on different aspects of visual arts.  One is a first for me -- an account of my perspective as an art collector, which I've never really written about.  In writing about it, I realize again that I'm not a collector in the normative sense of the word (okay: when was the last time I was normal?).  In part because I believe (great) art belongs in public, not private, spaces.  I acquire art, not to "collect" it but to support the art of one's times (live artists gotta pay the rent, too).

Second essay is on drawing.  I initially began it as a larger prose work on the philosophies of drawing.  But I'm going to be out of time, I think.  And so will focus mostly on Jean Vengua's fabulous haptic drawings.

Writing on art -- I love doing it but haven't done it in a while.  It's a different way to stretch the mind ... and the eyes.   But increasingly the mind, especially as my eyesight continues to falter.  But, hey, did you know that the blind artist can be just as effective as the seeing artist in making a haptic drawing?  One of the nuggets I learned from exploring Jean's haptic world.

Okay.  That was a coffee break.  Back to the work...  but here's an example of Jean's haptic drawings: "Tabios Haptic"!  Tabios-that'd be Moi!  What I love about it is how the writing continues clearly off the page:

SORTA QUEASY NOOSE...

This latest installation of my “Bought Poetry” list comes with a couple of twists. The first is that, technically, my purchases include my own newer books, THE AWAKENING and the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA (the latter penned with j/j hastain). I bought these two copies from a local fundraising sale that included books. Imagine my surprise – then kinda-queasiness – at seeing my books obviously deaccessioned by someone in order to be at this “rummage sale.” ‘Twas actually a good deal for me as the price they charged was lower than my author’s cost for copies, and the copies were in “new” (vs used) condition. I’m assuming these were unused review copies—and, hey, at least their sales back to the author were for a good cause. But still: kinda queasy -- I'm a big girl (and I know most review copies are never reviewed), but coming across them so physically this way has never happened to me before …

The second twist is that part of the list below is from the inventory of one of my publishers in the Philippines who’s retiring. Fortunately, someone was traveling from there to the U.S. so that I didn’t have to pay the international postal rate that would have made the books extremely expensive. Always HAPPY to have Giraffe books in the Poetry Library!

So here’s my latest “Bought Poetry” list which, while usually of poetry collections, also includes books in other genres (in today's list, a novel, essay collection and political science) if the authors are also poets.

THE AWAKENING by Eileen R. Tabios

THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios and j/j hastain

MY FAVORITE WARLORD by Eugene Gloria

REALISM by Tom Mandel

MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL by Sandra Simonds

COLLECTED POEMS by Enoch Powell

A CUP OF SUN: A BOOK OF POEMS by Joan Walsh Anglund

SONGS OF INNOCENCE (color facsimile of the First Edition with 31 Color Plates) by William Blake

Giraffe Books:
POEMS AT WAR by Jose Ma. Espino

A BLADE OF FERNS by Edith Tiempo

MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS by Edith Tiempo

FLYING OVER KANSAS by Rowena Tiempo Torrevilas

FILIPINA INSURGENCY: WRITING AGAINST PATRIARCHY IN THE PHILIPPINES by E. San Juan

CIRCLES WITH OPEN ENDS by Diana T. Gamalinda

STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE by Eva Villanueva

"WITH OUR BACKS TO THE WORLD, ... HERMENEUTICS..."

After a teensy hiatus, things are back to rockin' and rollin' over at SitWithMoi!  Most recently, fabulous multi-media artist James Westwater contacted Moi to share some images of a new work, "With Our Backs to the World, We Bow: The Hermeneutics of Solitude", mixed-media, 2013.  Go HERE for the SitWithMoi post about this fabulously-titled mini installation, of which here is a relevant detail:

The image of a reader is relevant to us 9 billion Peeps, but I do encourage you to check out James' SitWithMoi Link to rediscover the importance -- and distinct pleasure -- of context!

Moi hearts artists!  Thanks for the input, James!

GALATEA'S LATEST RESURRECTION!

I, Missy Scarlet and Achilles are delighted to announce the release of Galatea Resurrects #20!  With 64 new reviews!

You can access the new issue RIGHT HERE, but I copynpaste the Table of Contents below for your convenience as Moi am here to convenience you!

GALATEA RESURRECTS #20 (A Poetry Engagement)

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios


NEW REVIEWS
T.C. Marshall reviews CHINESE SUN by Arkadii Dragomoschenko; DISTANCE WITHOUT DISTANCE by Barbara Einzig; THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES by Lyn Hejinian; ON THE TRACKS OF WILD GAME by Tomaž Šalamun; THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen Tabios and j/j hastain; and ON THE PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS, AD 1960-2012 by Sotère Torregian

Neil de la Flor reviews CEMETERY CHESS: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Sandy McIntosh

Eileen Tabios engages MERIDIAN by Kathleen Jesme

Laura Madeline Wisemen reviews SALEM IN SÉANCE by Susana H. Case

Djelloul Marbrook reviews Ahsahta Press and seven of its books: GALLOWGLASS by Susan Tichy; WORK FROM MEMORY by Dan Beachy-Quick; THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet; ZONE: ZERO by Stephanie Strickland; PLEASURE by Brian Teare; SANCTA by Andrew Grace; and COUNTERPART by Elizabeth Robinson

Eileen Tabios engages CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink

j/j hastain engages AFTER SWANN with text by Marthe Reed, animation by Yeon Choi and music by joshua carro. Directed and produced by Keith Horwick

E.E. Nobbs reviews A MARZIPAN FACTORY—NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Grzegorz Wroblewski, translated by Adam Zdrodowski

Eileen Tabios engages THE ROMANCES AND OTHER POEMS by Micah Cavaleri

Tom Beckett reviews RECALCULATING by Charles Bernstein

Rhoda Rosenfeld and Edric Mesmer engage SEVEN CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES AND OBITUARY 2004. THE JOY OF COOKING by Tan Lin

Eileen Tabios engages ROUNDING THE HUMAN by Linda Hogan

Patrick James Dunagan reviews WESTERN PRACTICE by Stephen Motika

Carrie Hunter engages MERRY HELL by Sara Larsen

Thomas Fink reviews “ONLY TO PRY”, a poem in TINY GOLD DRESS by John Godfrey

Eileen Tabios engages THE GRAPEVINE by Richard Lopez

Neil Leadbeater reviews THE WHITE MUSEUM by George Bilgere

Genevieve Kaplan reviews THE IMPORTANT THING IS … CARD GAME by Marjorie Tesser

Eileen Tabios engages WAXWINGS by Daniel Nathan Terry

Neil Leadbeater reviews THE LOST COUNTRY OF SIGHT by Neil Aitken

Judy Roitman reviews three books by Kim Hyesoon, all translated by Don Mee Choi: ALL THE GARBAGE OF THE WORLD UNITE, MOMMY MUST BE A FOUNTAIN OF FEATHERS, and PRINCESS ABANDONED

Eileen Tabios engages RENEGADE // HEART by Lisa M. Cole

Melissa Fry Beasley reviews ELVIS PRESLEY’S HIPS & MICK JAGGER’S LIPS by Susana H. Case

Eileen Tabios engages BRUSHSTROKES AND GLANCES by Djelloul Marbrook

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews WARSAW BIKINI and MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL, both by Sandra Simonds

Eileen Tabios engages ALL THIS FALLING AWAY by Tim Armentrout

Neil Leadbeater reviews EDGE EFFECTS by Jan Conn

Eileen Tabios engages ARSENIC LOBSTER: POETRY JOURNAL 2013, Issues 26, 27 & 28, Editor Susan Yountz

Carrie Hunter engages THE PRECIPICE OF JUPITER by erica lewis and mark stephen finein

Carrie Hunter engages THE RECITATION OF FORGETTING by Franck André Jamme

Eileen Tabios engages MEMORY CARDS by Susan M. Schultz

rob mclennan reviews SCARED TEXT by Eric Baus

Eileen Tabios engages THE BODY DOUBLE: A LONG POEM by Jared Harel

G.E. Schwartz reviews LIFE SENTENCES: APHORISMS & REFLECTIONS by Michael Perkins

Eileen Tabios engages IN MIXED COMPANY by Caleb Puckett & Friends, edited by Walter Ruhlmann and co-edited by Caleb Puckett

Jeff Harrison engages THE MORPHINE POEMS by Bobbi Lurie

Sally Deskins reviews SPRUNG by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Eileen Tabios engages WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

Neil Leadbeater reviews LIFE’S A BEACH by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan

Eileen Tabios engages AT THE TURNING OF THE LIGHT, VISIBLE BONES and ONE BIRD FALLING, all by CB Follett

jim mccrary reviews BLAME FAULT MOUNTAIN by Spencer Selby

Eileen Tabios engages MODULATIONS, ADDENDA and THE READER, all by Márton Koppány

Nicholas T. Spatafora engages LAST CALL AT THE TIN PALACE by Paul Pines and PRESENT TENSE by Anna Rabinowitz

Eileen Tabios engages PRIOR by James Berger

Eileen Tabios engages ITEMS by Tom Jenks


ESSAY
“Getting Past the ‘Lyric Block’ & the Individual as Ego: Poetic Method in John Clarke’s In the Analogy” by Bruce Holsapple


FEATURED POET … IN ILOCANO!
Luisa A. Igloria


FEATURED POET ... IN TAGALOG!
Joi Barrios


REVIEW OF A REVIEW
Richard Kostelanetz engages Thomas Fink’s review of Fict/ions and This Sentence


THE CRITICS WRITE POEMS
Djelloul Marbrook

Melissa Fry Beasley


FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Kenneth Warren reviews BIBLIODEATH: MY ARCHIVES WITH LIFE IN FOOTNOTES by Andrei Codrescu

Lea Graham reviews VICTORY AND HER OPPOSITES by Amy England

Amaranth Borsuk reviews FRACTAL ECONOMIES by Derek Beaulieu

Lea Graham reviews HEAT LINES by Michael Anania

Amaranth Borsuk reviews DOG EAR by Erica Baum

Lea Graham reviews BELOVED IDEA by Ann Killough

Richard Lopez engages RIMBAUD by Graham Robb

Amaranth Borsuk reviews REVOLVER by Robyn Schiff


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BACK COVER
A Catty Review by Iris McCrary

CATTINESS AND RELISHES

The tiniest creature in the house (if you exclude the country bugs) is moi kitty kat Missy Scarlet.  And she is pissed off because I focused on another cat (Iris in prior post).  So, sighing, I am following her orders to post her photo because she's a meanie -- she's tinier than Achilles' head but Big German Shepherd Achilles is very intimidated by her.  To wit:

Which is also to say in a non-seguing kind of way, here’s one more update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below before my trip. 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
*  CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink (this is one of the most important books of poetry I've read in at least the past five years.  Y'all should check it out!)

MERIDIAN, poems by Kathleen Jesme (Outstanding. Moving. Authentic.)

FOUR BUTTONS TWO HOLES FOUR BROOMS, by Jean Arp (wonderful! Just check out the link!)

* IN MIXED COMPANY, poems by Caleb Puckett and Friends (fabulous music that even encompasses the hymn)

PRINCESS ABANDONED, essays by Kim Hyesoon, trans. Don Mee Choi (AWESOME!)

(EM)BODIED BLISS, poems by Marthe Reed (such powerful – and often ravishing and ravished! – work)

* THE ROMANCES AND OTHER POEMS by Micah Cavaleri (wonderfully unique poems. Great read!)

WAXWINGS, poems by Daniel Nathan Terry (intelligent, compassionate poems)

* UNEXPLAINED FEVERS, poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey (enjoyed these reconstituted fairy tales since “life is not a fairy tale”! Laughed at he who saved some princess and now lives with her but thinks, she’s not what I thought she’d be…haha)

* VIDEO TAPE, poems by Andrew Zawacki (ingenious!)

RECALCULATING, poems by Charles Bernstein (super!)

* GRADUALLY THE WORLD: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1982-2013 by Burt Kimmelman (lovely and luminous worlds/words)

* NOISE EVENT, poems by Heidi Lynn Staples (wonderfully multi-faceted; so many striking lines!)

MY FAVORITE WARLORD, poems by Eugene Gloria (as ever, the compassion in this poet’s eye is a welcome constant)

WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE: Poetry and Family Photographs by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish (well done)

REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE, poems by Eileen R. Tabios (I know—it’s my book. Rereading this book for a new project, but rereading this book which was released in 1998 pleases me as, based on its poems, I can’t fathom who the “I” was that wrote such poems…)

RENDER: AN APOCALYPSE, poems by Rebecca Gayle Howell (outstanding energy, befitting “apocalypse”)

WHEN SHE NAMED FIRE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY BY AMERICAN WOMEN, edited by Andrea Hollander Budy

OTOLITHS, Issue #29, edited by Mark Young (outstanding international literary and arts feast!)

VERSE, Vol. 28, No. 3 / Vol. 29, No. 1, literary journal edited by Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki (really like its structure of showing a meaty representation of an author, in this case an interview of Eileen Myles, and writings by Allison Titus, Joshua Edwards, Francis Luong, Alissa Nutting and Travis McDonald)

STUDIO SPACES, design by Better Homes and Garden

WHAT COMES NEXT, novel by John Katzenbach

THE FORGOTTEN, novel by David Baldacci

SUSPECT, novel by Robert Crais

HIT ME, novel by Lawrence Block

RESURRECTION EXPRESS, novel by Stephen Romano

I, MICHAEL BENNETT, novel by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

PRIVATE BERLIN, novel by James Patterson & Mark Sullivan

BETRAYAL, novel by Robin Lee Hatcher

GRAVITY, novel by Tess Gerritsen

SWEPT AWAY, novel by Mary Connealy


WINES
Nada.  To moi everlasting disgust.

I CAN MAKE YOU PURRRRRRR!

....Purrrr, based on the experience of jim mccrary's cat Iris who apparently loves my new book, THE AWAKENING!  jim, by the way, has graced Moi and Toi with a revoooo written in his inimitable style -- do check it out HERE for a belly-laugh!  Now, heeeeee...eeeee...eeere's Iris lovin' on moi new book!

GALATEA RESURRECTS CONTINUES RESURRECTING...

Busy. As for creative writing -- one of the major focuses of my life and yet just a part of daily life activities -- I'm working on three manuscripts-in-progress.  So the blogging has slipped of late.  Except that I'm also preparing to release the next issue of Galatea Resurrects.

I haven't closed the issue yet for ye last-minute straggler reviewers, but so far have 52 new reviews.  While that's a huge amount of new reviews by most standards, it's only (cough) 52 when I've seen Galatea's count go into three figures in the past.  So this occasions the stray thought of whether I should continue the publication.  But then, in reviewing the issue-in-progress, I realized that this upcoming issue will review fourteen (14!) poetry publishers new to Galatea (bringing the count of publishers reviewed to date to 474 publishers in 17 countries).

I guess that means it's still too early to pull the plug.  So many books, so few venues for exposure!

Entonces, even as I finish putting together the next issue, please do note the new Submissions Deadline for the subsequent 21st issue of Galatea Resurrects: Nov. 27, 2013.  Do go HERE for more information!