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.