RELISHED HARVESTS

Here are two shots—above is before and below is after the oven—from our “apricot summer” when the hubby prepared an apricot pie with apricots and Meyer lemon (juice) from our gardens. I won’t post a photo of Moi scarfing down a huge slice.

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.

In fact, on the list below is a special opportunity to do a review with a young kiddo, tween or teen—isn’t this summer and maybe said young kiddo is driving you nuts around the house? To wit, maybe you and your child—or your child alone—might want to review a unique publication, KINDERGARDE: AVANT-GARDE POEMS, PLAYS, STORIES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN, Edited by Dana Teen Lomax. It’s also geared for adult reading but it does provide a unique opportunity to involve kids in not just poetry but avant-garde approaches! Moi email: GalateaTen@aol.com


2013 SUMMER HARVEST
5 green figs
4 Meyer lemons
6 yellow onions
27 apricots
23 yellow squash
15 strawberries
3 Italian cucumbers


PUBLICATIONS
WHAT’S IN STORE, poems by Trevor Joyce (oh such a lovely lovely achievement! It’s my loss I come belatedly to this 2007 book; it is a gentle feat!)

DOOR OF THIN SKINS, poems by Shira Dentz (poems which as a sum (as a collection) is more than its parts (individual poems). Good example—an urgent motivation—as to why poetry should be more than verse. Novelistic in scope. Searing, thus moving in content. Ambitious and effectively so in form.)

From THE GOLDEN WEST by Jason Morris with sketches by Jason Grabowski, along with Thoreau's ECONOMY with drawings by Jesse Schlesinger and a poem by Thomas Carew (a feat and a treat, especially with the fabulous production of Alone Company Editions / Publication Studio that elevate the project to book art.)

FUR BIRDS, poems by Michelle Detorie (was pleasantly surprised at its charisma. A feat.)

THREE POSTCARD POEMS by Amanda Laughtland (fabulous. click on link!)

* MILK & FILTH, poems by Carmen Gimenez Smith (potent with many pleasingly unexpected twists)

THIRTY-FIVE NEW PAGES by Lev Rubinstein, note-card poems translated from Russian by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky (fabulous! LinkedIn Recommendation #7)

FRIGHT CATALOG, (visual) poetry by Joseph Mosconi (wonderful conceptual underpinning. Unique and delightful! LinkedInRecommendation #13)

NO OBJECT, poems by Natalie Shapero (smart, as the saying goes, as a whip)

* EVERY POSSIBLE BLUE, poems by Matthew Thorburn (wonderful, playful poems)

LO, BITTERN, poems by C.J. Martin

ONE PETAL ROW, poems by Jaimie Gusman

TINDER // HEART, poems by Lisa M. Cole

* STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE, poems by Jeffrey Pethybridge

MIND OVER MATTER, poems by Gloria Frym

SECOND NATURE, poems by Jack Collom

RISE IN THE FALL, poems by Ana Bozicevic, with drawings by Bianca Stone

* HURT, THE SHADOW: THE JOSEPHINE HOPPER POEMS by Carole Stone

* KINDERGARDE: AVANT-GARDE POEMS, PLAYS, STORIES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN, Edited by Dana Teen Lomax (wonderful sense of play. Also suitable for adult readers)

HORROR CLOSE-UP, anthology edited by Conrad Kisch (a Danish children’s book that reprinted two zombie poems by Tom Beckett—so proud as his publisher!)

A THING AMONG THINGS: THE ART OF JASPER JOHNS, essays/criticism/meditations by John Yau (magnificent! LinkedIn Recommendation #10)

NAMES FOR THE SEA: STRANGERS IN ICELAND, memoir by Sarah Moss

GIFT FROM THE SEA, meditations by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (doesn’t go deep enough. Shows just how difficult—and admirable—are the achievements of such (journal/memoir) writers as Anne Truitt, May Sarton and Jennifer Moxley)

CELEBRITY VINEYARDS: FROM NAPA TO TUSCANY IN SEARCH OF GREAT WINES, journalism by Nick Wise

THE CARETAKER, novel by A.X. Ahmad

HIGH CRIMES, novel by Joseph Finder

THE WANDERER, novel by Robyn Carr

THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN, novel by Jennifer Probst (got this as brain popcorn for travel reading and because poetry was cited when I flipped through it. Having read through it, that’s just awful poems in there! But then, so is the prose… I finished it; didn’t want to give up. Of course, sometimes, one should just give up.)


WINES
2011 Layer Cake South Australia shiraz
2010 Catena malbec