VEGETABLES AND NOT

-dedicated to Vince Flynn, whose novels have often graced this List below…

And that’s a shot of some of the results of the harvest with which I begin a new “Summer Harvest” section—all in an attempt to have the world witness the extremely incompetent Martha Stewart side to moiself, notwithstanding that I do live in one of the most fertile spots on earth. Anyway, here’s 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.


2013 SUMMER HARVEST
4 Meyer lemons
6 yellow onions
15 apricots (some very hard apricots, sigh)
18 yellow squash
7 strawberries
3 Italian cucumbers


PUBLICATIONS
HE LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULTS AND SAW MY NEEDS, poems by Leonard Gontarek (ravishing. Deservedly been called “a poet’s poet.” LinkedIn Recommendation #1)

DÉJÀ VU DINER, poems by Leonard Gontarek (reading above made me want to check out the poet’s other works and this, too, is just ridiculously sublime!)

IN THE LAURELS, CAUGHT, poems by Lee Ann Brown (delicious expanse! LinkedIn Recommendation #3)

* NEW ORLEANS VARIATIONS & PARIS OUROBOROS, poems by Paul Pines (fabulous textual jazz! LinkedIn Recommendation #4)

VARIATIONS ON PAINTING A ROOM: POEMS 2000-2010 by Alan Baker (magnificent. Admirable supplety. LinkedIn Recommendation #6)

* ON GHOSTS, poetry [/] essay by Elizabeth Robinson (suffused with light and insight)

I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE, poems by Amy King (nicely done! quite smart)

THE VOICE AT 3:00 A.M.: SELECTED LATE AND NEW POEMS by Charles Simic (voice of experience)

* HOUSES, poems by CB Follett (well constructed! pun intended)

* MY FUNERAL GONDOLA, poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (interesting conceptual underpinning)

* COMES UP TO FACE THE SKIES, poems by Steve Gilmartin

* FASCICLE 30, poems by Brad Vogler

* PHRENOLOGUE, poem by Judah Raanan Rubin

SUSPENSION OF A SECRET IN ABANDONED ROOMS, poems by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

THE POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL

10 MISSISSIPPI, poems by Steve Healey

* DARKACRE, poems by Greg Hewett

THE NEXT ANCIENT WORLD, poems by Jennifer Michael Hecht

HIROSHIMA IN THE MORNING, memoir w/ poem by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (courageous and thus inspiring)

DAYS ON THE ROAD: CROSSING THE PLAINS IN 1865: THE DIARY OF SARAH RAYMOND HERNDON

OREGON TRAIL STORIES: TRUE ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN A COVERED WAGON

HEARTS WEST: TRUE STORIES OF MAIL ORDER BRIDES ON THE FRONTIER by Chris Enss

DEAR MAD’M, autobiography by Stella Walthall Patterson

MODERN COUNTRY: REINTERPRETING A CLASSIC STYLE, interior decoration by Nancy E. Ingram and M.J. Van Deventer with photography by Jenifer Jordan

ALL IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS LOST, novel by Lan Samantha Chang (fabulous novel involving poets and the art of poetry. LinkedIn Recommendation #2)

THE GANGSTER WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR, novel by Le Thi Diem Thuy

THE WRONG MAN, novel by David Ellis

RUSHED TO THE ALTAR, novel by Jane Feather

AN UNSUITABLE BRIDE, novel by Jane Feather


WINES
Cheated from Austerity Diet with
2010 Layer Cake Primitivo
2009 Domaine Drouhin Pinot noir
2010 Rex Hill Pinot noir Willamette Valley
2010 Cowhorn syrah 80
2011 Layer Cake South Australia shiraz

BUT BUT BUT … latest doctor’s appointment freed me from said Austerity Diet—I AM HEALTHY AGAIN!—and I can return to being a lush (albeit presumably balanced lush…you know: as balanced as Moi am as a poet …)