HMM: SHOULD I REVIEW ONLY WOMEN WRITERS?

Reading and reviewing only women writers – HERE is an interesting article about it from The Guardian.  Indeed, I was moved to consider reviewing only women writers for a while – say, for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects (GR).  I haven’t fully committed to the idea (even though I’ve chosen the first book to review and it’s by a woman), in part because as soon as I thought about the concept, several titles by male authors came to mind as books I’d have to defer for reviewing purposes.  But then, I also thought about how the fact that this list immediately popped up probably says something about how the problem is so ingrained (see Matthew Jakubowski’s comments on this issue in the article).  So, I’ll put the idea in the forefront as I continue reading through books for possible review and see if that’ll make a difference in my reviewing choices for at least the next issue of GR.

Meanwhile, here’s one of the titles by male authors that I have targeted reviewing: VARIATIONS ON PAINTING A ROOM: POEMS 2000-2010 by Alan Baker (Skysill Press, Nottingham, U.K., 2011). I haven’t done the review yet but I mention it because, as I’ve said before, the fact that I consider reviewing a particular book means I think it’s excellent.  So if others wish to review this book for GR, I have a review copy; just let me know at GalateaTen@aol.com

And, here’s moi 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

READING THE DIFFICULTIES: DIALOGUES WITH CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INNOVATIVE POETRY, poetics with poems edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan (I loved this – a LinkedIn Poetry Recommendation (LPR) #103 – because I always like poetry discourses that are both sophisticated and down-to-earth (well, as regards the latter, perhaps not totally but mostly… Contributors: Charles Bernstein, Carrie Conners, Thomas Fink, Kristen Gallagher, Judith Halden-Sullivan, Paolo Javier, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Jessica Lewis Luck, Stephen Paul Miller, Sheila E. Murphy, Elizabeth Robinson, Christopher Schmidt, Eileen R. Tabios)

NEW AND LATER POEMS by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez

*  THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR MOUTH, poems by Divya Victor

*  AMERISCOPIA, poems by Edwin Torres

*  RENDEZVOUS, poems by Todd Melicker

*  NO. WAIT. YEP. DEFINITELY STILL HATE MYSELF, poems by Rob Fitterman

*  SWALLOWER, poems by Lyric Hunter

*  AY, poems by Joan Houlihan

*  DEEP KISS, poems by Sherry Kearns

*  O’KEEFE: DAYS IN A LIFE, poems by C.S. Merrill

*  ALL NIGHTMARE, poetry introductions by Josef Kaplan (FABULOUS!  One of the more imaginative poetry projects I've seen recently released. Future LPR recommendation)

*  AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY Edited by Emmett Williams

*  BONE BOUQUET, Fall 2013, literary journal edited by Krystal Languell, Elizabeth Brasher, Allison Layfield, Trina Burke, Rachelle Cruz, and Amy MacLennan

MEMORY HOLES, memoir by Erin Virgil (wonderful. LPR #104)

BEYOND THE POSSIBLE: 50 YEARS OF CREATING RADICAL CHANGE AT A COMMUNITY CALLED GLIDE, memoir by Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani

FORTY CHANCES: FINDING HOPE IN A HUNGRY WORLD, study/autobiography by Howard G. Buffett with Howard W. Buffet and Foreword by Warren E. Buffett

HOMESTEADING: A MONTANA FAMILY ALBUM, memoir by Percy Wollaston

THE WORST HARD TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL, history by Timothy Egan

COVERED WAGON WOMEN: DIARIES & LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN TRAILS, 1840-1849 Edited by Kenneth L. Holmes

COVERED WAGON WOMEN: DIARIES & LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN TRAILS, 1852 “THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL,” Edited by Kenneth L. Holmes

JUNKYARD PLANET: TRAVELS IN THE BILLION-DOLLAR TRASH TRADE, journalism by Adam Minter

SNOW ON THE TULIPS, novel by Liz Tolsma

WINES

2007 Arcturus cabernet

2009 Pelissero Piani Barbera D’Alba

2006 Blankiet Rive Droite NV

2004 Bruno Colin Puligny Montrachet La Truffiere

2003 Joh. Jos.  Christoffel Erben Erdener Treppchen Riesling Auslese **