AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A LIFE IN POETRY

Poetry is consistent with synchronicities.  Last night, I discovered that this year will be the 20th year anniversary of my "career switch" from banking to poetry.  I hadn't realized ...

... and this coincides synchronizes with the new manuscript I'm preparing that'll come out in a few months -- an experimental biography (I love subverting that genre):

AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A LIFE IN POETRY (2015-1995)

I still remember the nervousness of becoming a poet.  I remember telling my husband that my goal was not to get an acceptance for any of my poems but a personalized rejection vs. a print-out.  I just thought it so against the odds that anyone would like my poems....

NESTS AND NESTING!

Kelsey Street Press now has a book page up for NESTS AND STRANGERS: ON ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN POETS Edited by Timothy Yu with Afterword by MG Roberts. I relished it and blurbed it!

Speaking of books, here's the rest of my latest Relished W(h)ines update of recently imbibed books and wines.  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. I get review copies almost everyday so please check out the link!

PUBLICATIONS

POST SUBJECT: A FABLE, poems by Oliver de la Paz (LPR #161. Wonderful: an imaginative concept manifested with lyric grace)

JUNKYARD DOG, poems by Halvard Johnson (fabulous. A favorite being the poem “On Kafka.” LPR #162)

ARIANE: A STOCK EPIC, conceptual poetry by Angelo Suarez (sly and brilliant.  LPR #163)

THE OTHER SIDE: SERIES FROM THE 1980s AND 1990s by Marton Koppany, Edited by G. Farn6aer (my first poetry read of 2015, and it’s a good one!)

CITIZEN, poetry by Claudia Rankine (LPR #164.  Magnificent.  And when compared with her first poetry collection NOTHING IN NATURE shows how magnificently she has progressed in her craft.  She shows why a poet should not be timid—her poetry resounds.)

NOTHING IN NATURE IS PRIVATE, poems by Claudia Rankine

HORSE COUNTRY, poems by Garin Cycholl (excellent!)

LISZT & OTHER LISTS, poems by Alex Gildzen (wonderful chap. Affirms the charisma of lists!)

ABU GHRAIB ARIAS, poems by Philip Metres

*  HERALDO DE MADRID by Cesar Vallejo, folded broadsheet with interview and translation (by Kent Johnson and Andres Ajens) of “Espana, aparta de mi este caliz” (sorry for lack of accent marks)

*  INTERVAL: POEMS BASED ON BACH’S “GOLDBERG VARIATIONS” by Alice B. Fogel

*  LAZY SUSIE, poems by Suzanne Doppelt, Trans. by Cole Swensen

*  UNIVERSE, poem by Diana Hamilton

KULCHUR GIRL, poetry/diary notes by Rachel Loden

*  I HOPE YOU DIE, poems by Michael Nicoloff

*  CHILDREN OF THE BAD HOUR, poems by Purdey Lord Kreiden

*  THE YEAR OF YELLOW BUTTERFLIES, poems by Joanna Fuhrman

*  WARDEN, poems by Rebecca Wolff

DISOBEDIENCE, poems by Alice Notley

A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS, poetics, poetry exercises and poems by CAConrad

ECODEVIANCE: (SOMA)TICS FOR THE FUTURE WILDERNESS, poetics, poetry exercises and poems by CAConrad

*  BORDER STATES, poems by Jane Hoogestraat

*  A BOOK OF COMMON RITUALS, poems by Brian Clements

*  PALIMPSEST, poems by Maxine Silverman

*  PARADES, poems by Sara Deniz Akant

*  THE SPOKEN WORD / THE PAINTED HAND from LEARNING TO DRAW / A HISTORY, poetry memoir by Basil King

A FUTURE MORE VIVID: SELECTED POEMS by Betsy Rosenberg

SELECTED POEMS 1957-2014 by Lydia M. Money

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY GENDER by j/j hastain

MICROCHIPS FOR MILLIONS, poems by Janice Lobo Sapigao (in manuscript)

LEAVE YOUR BODY BEHIND, poetic memoir by Sandra Doller

*  TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD, essays by Will Alexander

CONSIDERING GARLANDS: ON ANTHOLOGIES, curated by David Lazar with contributors John D’Agata, Robert Atwan, Joy Castro, Patricia Foster, Phillip Lopate and Jill Talbot (fabulous.  I wish those young would-be editors—and their publishers—who put together anthologies based on something as elementary, banal and reductive as age (e.g. best poets under age five), would have read this before they cut down trees).

PHOTOGRAPHING MONTANA 1894-1928: THE LIFE AND WORK OF EVELYN CAMERON by Donna M. Lucey

BROKEN HEARTLAND: THE RISE OF AMERICA’S RURAL GHETTO, journalism by Osha Gray Davidson

ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN: THE JOURNALS OF MAY DODD, novel by Jim Fergus

ACT OF WAR, novel by Brad Thor

ONE KICK, novel by Chelsea Cain

WINES

2005 Trevor Jones Barossa shiraz

2001 Faustino I Gran Reserba Rioja

2009 Finca Dofi Alvaro Palacio Priorat

HOTUS POTUS BY MARK YOUNG!

I am so pleased to announce Meritage Press' latest new title: HOTUS POTUS by Mark Young!

ISBN No.: 978-0-9826493-8-1
Release Date: January 2014
Price: $14
Currently Available for $9.80 from Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/hotus-potus/paperback/product-22001285.html
Also available direct from the publisher (MeritagePress@aol.com) and soon from Amazon.com

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The 20^th century cliché was that POTUS was the most powerful man in the world. We’ve since realized that that’s a load of hocus pocus, but, before that revelation, Mark Young committed his life to carrying around a heavy tape recorder in order to document for posterity the utterances of the forty-four Presidents of the United States. Now he has sifted through the more than 200 years of those recordings in order to bring to the reader the cream of the cream, HOTUS POTUS, presidential insights from an assembled cast that includes slave owners & supporters of emancipation; governors, generals, & those who never saw war but still won one for the gipper; rough riders & builders of smooth highways. Liars & truthtellers. So far there are no women. Let’s hope that changes soon. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Born in Hokitika, New Zealand and now living in North Queensland in Australia, Mark Young has been publishing poetry for fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays &poetry translated into a number of languages.

He is the author of more than twenty-five books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction & art history. His most recent books are the eclectic world from gradient books of Finland, and a chapbook of visual poems, Arachnid Nebula, from Luna Bisonte Prods.

He is the editor of the online and print journal Otoliths.

LISTING LIST POEMS!

January 31 is the submission deadline for list or catalog poems for the special issue I'm curating for TRUCK.  Send to galateaten at gmail dot com.   Until then, do appreciate the lovely cover -- designed by John Sokol -- to an oldie but goodie publication, LISZT & OTHER LISTS by Alex Gildzen:

Thanks for my copy, Alex!

AFFINITIES: HELMUT LANG

As the gal who slouches around in her Dad's old shirts, I don't pay much attention to fashion ... though I was peripherally aware of Helmut Lang's avant garde designs.  Then, this morning, I stumbled across an article of him in the Wall Street Journal Magazine -- an article about his new career as a sculptor.  And thus did I discover him doing something in sculpture I did for SUN STIGMATA and am doing in the Murder, Death and Resurrection poetries.  To wit, from the article by Julie L. Belcove:

Lang...ushers me down to a second room, where some 200 tall, thin poles lean against the walls.  From a distance they resemble a forest of birch trees. Most are blackish or whitish, while some are bright red, blue or yellow. Up close their mottled surfaces reveal themselves to be resin and pigment mixed with bits of colorful yet indecipherable textures--in truth, shredded remnants of Lang's clothing designs.... 

In what was perhaps a cathartic exercise, Lang found an artistic use for his own fashion trove. After a 2010 fire in the SoHo space where he stored his remaining archive, he systematically destroyed the 6,000 to 8,000 items of clothing that survived.  "That all got shredded with an industrial shredder," he says, "without hierarchy."

Beautiful mind.  Beautiful poetics.

Here are some shots of the illustrations in the article.  The first is of the pole sculptures and the second is a resonant black sculpture which had been simply a stack of flattened cardboard in his studio that he doused in thick coats of resin and pigment...

What's interesting, too, about his pole sculptures is that Lang is self-educated and yet felt moved to manifest the iconic imagery of the pole sculptures.  That, contrary to the corporatized/academicized art and poetry cultures, shows something basic about Art.

ALL VOICED UP!

The current issue of Our Own Voice is generous to me.  Thank you Reme Grefalda and Aileen Ibardaloza for featuring, not just Mom’s reminiscences of me as a toddler-writer, but

--a poem from AMNESIA: SOMEBODY’S MEMOIR: “I Forgot All Ancestors” 

--a review of FOOTNOTES TO ALGEBRA.  Here's excerpt of review:

[Tabios’] “poetry” may be “inherently a matter of interconnections,” but the principle of “a word arbitrarily place next to another” is not going to guarantee the collection of generative interconnections; the poet needs to have written the poems carefully and then to have thought vigorously enough to establish effective groupings. And she did. … When Tabios’ poetry simultaneously enables the reader to contemplate the significance of the “frame” of words and to “see/ Beyond the frame” to “another possibility,” its algebra is most enticing and acute.

--my interview with poet Patrick Rosal about his breakdancer drawings:

"Patrick Rosal: Sketching the Energy of Breakdancers" 

--a review of my three 2014 released poetry collections: SUN STIGMATA, 44 RESURRECTIONS and 147 MILLION ORPHANS. Here are excerpts from the review:

On Sun Stigmata 

With few exceptions, the titles of the poems in this collection begin with an open bracket as if they are being written in parenthesis. To my mind this is because they seek to offer an elaboration or a rephrasing on something that has gone before. Interestingly, the brackets are never closed. This is the parenthesis that offers a space, a digression, an interlude that Tabios leaves for the reader. It is up to the reader to complete whatever it is that he or she discovers in the poem and then to close that bracket. It is a mechanism that allows the poem to breathe, to resonate in all its nuances, much as a person might stand before a painting and not move away from it until its impact has been experienced in full. 

 In the opening section, “My Greece,” Tabios gives hints as to the strategy she will adopt as a writer. She will embrace unpredictability, she will not be constrained by narrative, she will appeal to the emotions, write from the heart as well as the head, and escape chaos through the creation of art. She is attracted by the statue of the Kritios Boy because it breaks with tradition by shifting away from a rigid full-frontal position, the right leg slightly bent, the whole statue immortalized in hesitation. In “Purity” she laments how a square canvas depicts a square and a circular canvas depicts a circle. In contrast to such dull predictability, she wants her writing to flow like “a menstruation—ooze with a viscous intensity unmitigated by geometry.” 

 On 147 MILLION ORPHANS 

This is a book that offers up some powerful thought-provoking messages. It deserves to be heard because it speaks out against social injustice and brings to light the shocking plight of those who have no voice of their own. 

 

On 44 RESURRECTIONS 

The overall effect is often one of the beginning of a story or series of stories which the reader is left to complete because once again Tabios has allowed us the freedom to indulge in the realm of our own imaginations. Isn’t that one of the things that all great poetry should really be about?

I guess I've been busy....

"MY DAUGHTER EILEEN" BY MOM

When going through Mom's papers, I discovered an essay she'd written about me in 1998.  From it, I learned things about what were apparently my writerly beginnings and childhood that I was too young to remember.  I thank OUR OWN VOICE for publishing it.  Go HERE to read about how Mom helped raise this baby:

A REVIEW OF MY REVIEW!

As a reviewer, I just got reviewed!  Go HERE for Notes on the Mosquito's review of my review of Steve Bradbury's translation of SALSA by Hsia Yu (a fabulous book!).  

I've had poems translated into other languages but those translations have never been reviewed.  So after smiling over being called "effusive", my take-away from the review is being reminded of how "Translations are often reviewed by people who know the source language. Whether they know poetry in the target language much more of a coin-flip." 

Thus, a lot of reviews of translations go into whether the translator did well by the translatee.     It's interesting--by not knowing the source language in this case, I focused only (and had no choice but to focus only) on the English-language result.  Specifically, I focused only on the poem(s), regardless of its author.  That's a point-of-view, of course, that deserves its place at the table.

THE SUN ALIT IN BOSTON

As publisher of Muddy River Poetry Review when it was still in its printed form, Zvi A. Sesling is an editor who published probably one of my first five poems to get published.  Eighteen years later, he's reviewing SUN STIGMATA.  It's both a kick to him and me that he's able to review a book (the 28th book!) of a poet he published when she was just months into writing poems.  I'm blessed to have such people in the poetry world.  And I thank him for his review in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene.  Here's an excerpt for what he has to say about SUN STIGMATA (a few typos in there but feel free to ignore them as I did):

…her poetry is reminiscent of Joseph Conrad who learned English around the age of twenty-nine and then wrote some of the great stories of the English language. I dare say there are few poets who can use the English language as well, as mysteriously, as excitingly as Tabios does in all her books and especially in this one.

Entire review HERE.

P.S.  I'm a native Ilokano-, not Tagalog-, speaker.

I GOT PINNED

It tickles.

READ POETRY IN 2014

In 2014, I read 372 publications by poets or on poetry. The list below is alphabetized by the poets’ and/or editors’ last names. 

I’m happy at reading more than I did the prior year when  read 319 such publications in 2013. 

This list does not necessarily portray the type of poetry I favor. In reading poems as a practitioner, I just want to know what's out there. I've found that POV to be more elucidating than trying to read through some defined aesthetic gate. The process is not just more educational but also makes for the fabulous moments of welcome discoveries—several of my discoveries made it to another project that I began in mid-2013, my LinkedInPoetry Recommendations (LPR).

My ethical desire is to read every poem, which means I often randomly grab from a huge TO-READ pile (which includes but is not limited to the review copy list for Galatea Resurrects for which I serve as Editor). I also end up reading a few books for unique reasons--like if my local library stocks a new poetry book, I check it out in order to prove there's demand for poetry...and then inevitably read it before I return it.

Did I like every book I read on this list? Nope, but that's irrelevant. Even the most banal poem has a place in this wonderland-landscape of Poetry. All poems are welcome to me (not to mention how the great poem might require less-than-stellar poems as conditions precedent to its making). Contrary to would-be pundits' proclamations, THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH POEMS. Having said that, I love the quality of the work I've read in 2014 (more than makes up for all the crappy novels I read for mental popcorn) -- so THANK YOU, POETS! (If you're a poet and don't see your book on this list, I hope to read it in the future.)

Here then is a poetic Relished W(h)ine List for 2014, with some brief notes on them to the extent I was moved to comment at the time I read them. A no comment, btw, does not signify I didn’t like the book. (The List is called "W(h)ine" partly because my intermittent postings usually include wines I'd recently imbibed--why not?) The list below (in alphabetical order by author or editor) is divided into poetry collections, anthologies or journals, and other forms by poets or involving poetry (e.g. journals, anthologies, memoirs, novels):

POETRY COLLECTIONS (311)

]EXCLOSURES[ by Emily Abendroth

STICK-UP by Paul David Adkins

HOURGLASS MUSEUM by Kelli Russell Agodon

TO THE ARCHIVES by Rose Alcala (part of A THIRD INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS)

PORT LIGHT: A HAY(NA)KU COLLECTION by William Allegrezza (OUTSTANDING!)

STILL. WALK., poems and visual poetry by William Allegrezza (fabulous. LinkedIn Poetry Recommendation (LPR) #106)

PHENOMENAL WOMEN: FOUR POEMS CELEBRATING WOMEN by Maya Angelou

SLIGHT RETURN: REMIX AND EKPHRASIS by Robert Archambeau (fabulous! LPR #124)

BURN PIT, poems by Mary Armstrong (powerful)

THE REEF by Elizabeth Arnold

PETRARCH COLLECTED by Tim Atkins

AMNESIA OF THE MOVEMENT OF CLOUDS & OF RED AND BLACK VERSE by Maria Attanasio, Trans. By Carla Billitteri

A MESSENGER COMES, poems by Rachel Tzvia Back (fabulous, LPR, #101) 

BINDWEED by Christianne Balk

PASSENGER-ULTRASOUND by Justyna Bargielska,Trans. from Polish by Katarzyna Szuster

MOONBOOK AND SUNBOOK by Willie Barnstone (a lovely intelligence. LPR #111)

THE TRANQUILIZED TONGUE by Eric Baus (deft. LPR #119)

THEY TALK ABOUT DEATH by Alessandra Bava (fabulous! LPR #125)

AMULET by Jason Bayani

KERN, visual poetry by Derek Beaulieu

DIPSTICK (DIPTYCH), poems by Tom Beckett (fabulous.  “I Forgot” is a classic. LPR #109)

SLANT SIX by Erin Belieu

THE TV SUTRAS by Dodie Bellamy (wonderfully imaginative. LPR #115)

A HERON IN BUENOS AIRES: SELECTED POEMS by Luis Benitez, with an essay by Carmen Vasco

PISO LLAGAS by John M. Bennett (have been enjoying these images from John’s Facebook so happy to have this printed version; adore these small scale productions with huge expanses)

SYMPHONY NO. 9 (NOCTURNES & THRESHOLDS), poems by Ric Carfagna (excellent!  I blurbed it and called it “a welcome addition to postmodern and deconstructed romantic poetry.” Future LPR.  Also, I first read this in manuscript form so it’s always interesting to see the actual designed book – and the design is lovely with drawings by another wonderful poet, Peter Ganick)

NOTWITHSTANDING SHORING, FLUMMOX, poems by Emily Abendroth (distinct charm)

THE STOOL by John M. Bennett with Tom Cassidy 

WATCHING THE WINDOWS SLEEP, stories, poems and art by Tantra Bensko

DO VIDJENJA DANITSE by Richard Berengarten with Serbian translation by Vera V. Radojevic (quite accomplished)

MANUAL by Richard Berengarten (fabulous. LPR #147)

EXPECT DELAYS by Bill Berkson

HER BECKONING HANDS by Arlene Biala

THE CURVED PLANKS by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. By Hoyt Rogers

BEFORE THE ALPHABET by Paula Bonnell (pleasantly joyous)

EURYDICE’S SONG, poems by William Borden and monotypes by Douglas Kinsey (wonderful retelling of the Eurydice and Orpheus tale, from the point of view – unlike with most variations – of Eurydice.  The monotypes are powerful and lovely.  LPR #142)

HANDIWORK by Amaranth Borsuk (intelligent and pleasurable. LPR #138)

MUM IS DOWN by Oscarine Bosquet

ART & NATURE by Daniel Bouchard

COWS by Frederic Boyer, Trans. by Nicholas Bredie and Joanna Howard

JUNE by Daniel Brenner

GOSSAMER LID, poems and visual poetry (in manuscript) by Andrew Brenza (pleasing effects here)

A STRANGER’S TABLE by Anne Brooke (lovely)

WOMAN IN THE PAINTING by Andrea Hollander Budy

OTHERWISE, MY LIFE IS ORDINARY, poems and essay by Bobby Byrd (interesting enough to compel a review in Galatea Resurrects)

WE USED TO BE GENERALS by Sarah Campbell

THE ALBERTINE WORK-OUT by Anne Carson

4 RMS W VU by Susana H. Case

FACE PAINTING IN THE DARK by Ann Cefola

NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND by Aime Cesaire, Trans and edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith

HERE by Maxine Chernoff

MINIATURES by Meredith Cole

THE LEDGE by Michael Collier (stellar)

HOROSCOPES FOR THE DEAD, poems by Billy Collins

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by Alfred Corn

CONTRABAND OF HOOPOE by Ewa Chrusciel

BEAST FEAST by Cody-Rose Clevidence

THE BARONS by Joshua Corey

AFTER LUNCH WITH FRANK O’HARA by Craig Cotter

ELISE COWEN: POEMS AND FRAGMENTS, Edited by Tony Trigilio

GIMME YOUR HANDS by Sara Crangle

EVERYTHING ARRIVES AT THE LIGHT by Lorna Crozier

MOONLIGHT IN THE REDEMPTIVE FOREST by Michael Daley

ORIGINAL SIN by Michael Daley

SIX PORTRAITS by Julie Danho with art by E.V. Day (fine and wise)

DANCE by Lightsey Darst

FIND THE GIRL by Lightsey Darst

NOTHING MORE TO LOSE by Najwan Darwish, Trans. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

TWO FAT BOYS by James Davies (funny!)

HOME AMONG THE SWINGING STARS: COLLECTED POEMS OF JAIME DE ANGULO, Editor Stefan Hyner with essay by Andrew Schelling

THIEVES IN THE AFTERLIFE by Kendra DeCoto

LOVE, OF A KIND by Felix Dennis

AFTER-CAVE, poems by Michelle Detorie (moving and resonant and pleasingly unique. LPR #153)

BOTTOMLAND by Laressa Dickey

THE POETRY DEAL by Diane Di Prima

GOOD HOPE ROAD by Stuart Dischell

WEAR WHITE AND GRIEVE by Jennifer Diskin

COLLECTED POEMS by Patricia Dobler

GREEN OIL by Jean Donnelly

MORSE, MY DEAF FRIEND, poems (translated from Croatian) by Milos Djurdjevic (really accomplished)

BLOWOUT by Denise Duhamel

IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS, poems and images by Joshua Edwards

COMFORTABLE KNIVES by Stephen Emmerson

THE ANGELS OF BREAD by Martin Espada (undoubtedly a re-read. As ever, a crowd-pleaser)

ROLY POLY / BICHO BOLA by Victoria Estol, Trans. from Spanish by Seth Michelson (so glad to be introduced to this young Uruguayan poet.  Wonderful work.  LPR #141)

IMAGINED SONS by Carrie Etter (excellent!  LPR #108)

THE LOW POURING STARS by George J. Farrah

NEWCOMER by Nathaniel Farrell

GREAT GUNS by Farnoosh Fathi

WHEN YOU BIT by Adam Fieled (wonderful!)

FLASHES by Jennifer Firestone (well-conceived)

NO. WAIT. YEP. DEFINITELY STILL HATE MYSELF by Rob Fitterman

SELECTED POEMS by Mark Ford

TATTERED BOAT by Luis H. Francia (wonderful poetry by a poet who’s now writing at his peak. LPR #116)

THE ROBOT SCIENTIST’S DAUGHTER by Jeannine Hall Gailey

THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE by Kate Gale

RED BOX OF BLUES, poems by Ryan Gallagher (favorite poem among many enjoyed is probably “And the Gods Make Love.”  LPR #127)

SAY THAT by Felecia Caton Garcia

ALTER MUNDUS by Lucia Gazzino, Trans. by Michael Daley

TRIBUTE by Anne Germanacos

COMES UP TO FACE THE SKIES, poems by Steve Gilmartin

ON TACT, & THE MADE UP WORLD by Michele Glazer

HEART FIRST INTO THE FOREST by Stacy Gnall

THE DUSTBOWL by Jim Goar

THE WORD KINGDOM IN THE WORD KINGDOM by Noah Eli Gordon

A’S VISUALITY by Anne Gorrick (in manuscript. See my blurb for it at http://eileenrtabios.com/with-the-community/selected-reviews-and-engagements/)

RESURRECTION PARTY by Michalle Gould

NEVER by Jorie Graham

PRESENTATION PIECE by Marilyn Hacker

THE OLD LIFE by Donald Hall (wonderful mastery of the long poem. LPR)

SHE HAD SOME HORSES by Joy Harjo

QUEER PHYLACTERY by j/j hastain

THE MEATGIRL WHATEVER by Kristin Hatch

WIND IN A BOX by Terrence Hayes

SEASONAL WORKS WITH LETTERS ON FIRE by Brenda Hillman

HER HUMAN COSTUME by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

BY THE HOURS: SELECTED POEMS EARLY & UNCOLLECTED by Eric Hoffman (Fabulous. Hoffman is one of those poets whose works truly deserve to be better known.  Compelling.  LPR #135) 

THE AMERICAN EYE by Eric Hoffman (what I say above)

THE TULIP-FLAME by Chloe Honum

HEART MOUNTAIN by Jodi Hottel

AY by Joan Houlihan

SPONTANEOUS PARTICULARS THE TELEPATHY OF ARCHIVES, poetry/poetics/art monograph/et al by Susan Howe (she does accomplish those “spirit sparks”)

STONEPICKER & THE BOOK OF MIRRORS by Frieda Hughes (many moments of magnificence)

THE BOOK OF HOURS by Frieda Hughes

STRANDS by Keri Hulme

FAULT LINES by Tim Hunt

SWALLOWER by Lyric Hunter

ODE TO THE HEART SMALLER THAN A PENCIL ERASER by Luisa A. Igloria

AGAINST THE EVIDENCE: SELECTED POEMS 1934-1994 by David Ignatow

WRITTEN 1987-2013 by P. Inman (LPR #149)

A FORM OF OPTIMISM by Roy Jacobstein

A PRINCESS MAGIC PRESTO SPELL, poems by Lisa Jarnot and images by Emilie Clark (wonderfully effective collaboration between poet and artist)

THE COMPLETE POEMS by Randall Jarrell

ON LIBERTY, REPRESSED by Tom Jenks (thought-provoking such that it compelled me reviewing it)

ALBEDO by Kathleen Jesme

SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME by Halvard Johnson

PRELUDE TO BRUISE by Saeed Jones (very strong)

ASTONISHMENTS: SELECTED POEMS OF ANNA KAMIENSKA, Edited and Translated by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon (a welcome discovery for me)

GEMOLOGY by Megan Kaminski (wonderful)

IN THE ICE HOUSE by Genevieve Kaplan (fabulous. LPR #140)

SETTINGS FOR THESE SCENES by Genevieve Kaplan (fabulous)

THE LANDFILL DANCERS by Mary Kasimor (liked “water for mrs lot” and “pray for the stone”)

DEEP KISS by Sherry Kearns

CONSTANCE by Jane Kenyon

E=->[AC]+h, poetry/music by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (unfathomable but enjoyable … as deep music should be!)

PENURY by Myung Mi Kim

THE WAY WE LIVE by Burt Kimmelman (fabulous. LPR #136)

ANOTHER AMERICA / OTRA AMERICA, poems by Barbara Kingsolver with Spanish translations by Rebeca Cartes

STARGAZERS, WE by Mary Kohler

HUNGARIAN LANGART, visual poetry by Marton Koppany 

FAREWELLIA A LA ARALEE by Ralph La Charity

ADVENTURES ON THE ISLE OF ADOLESCENCE by La Loca

CANYON IN THE BODY, poems by Lan Lan, Trans. by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Recommended. LPR #152)

DOUBLESPACE: POEMS 1971-1989 by Hank Lazer (interestingly innovative. LPR #143)

COASTLANDS by Aaron Lee

THE HOAX OF CONTAGION by Michael Leong (witty. LPR #126)

INCIDENTS OF SCATTERING by Karen Lepri

GREEN IS FOR WORLD by Juliana Leslie

HOW TO BE ANOTHER by Susan Lewis

STATE OF THE UNION by Susan Lewis

DON’T GO BACK TO SLEEP by Timothy Liu

BOMBYONDER, novel-that-could-be-poetry by Reb Livingston (LPR #154)

BIG MAMA SEZ: POEMS OLD & NEW by Babeth Lolarga (admirably brave and earned poetry)

THE BLACK UNICORN by Audre Lorde (stands the test of time)

OPEN NIGHT by Aaron Lowinger (ravishing. To be an LPR recommendation)

SO I BEGAN by Lisa Lubasch

SONG FROM A WASPSHIRE LAD by Fabian Macpherson

LABOR by Jill Magi

THE WHOLE MARIE by Barbara Maloutas (lovely. LPR)

LAND (CRUX 1) by C.J. Martin

THE COUNTRY I REMEMBER by David Mason (wonderful. LPR #137)

TO KEEP TIME by Joseph Massey (lovely, nuanced, atmospheric, palpable.  LPR #146)

TAX-DOLLAR SUPER SONNET FEATURING SARAH PALIN AS POET by Nicole Mauro

THAT OUR EYES BE RIGGED by Kristi Maxwell

MIDWINTER DAY by Bernadette Mayer

BEERS WITH EMILY D by Jim McCrary (incredible poems he calls “Emily-kus”)

ES VERDAD, poems and photos of horses and one dog by jim mccrary (muy fabuloso!  So wonderful I published in Galatea Resurrects, this unpublished chap)

& NOW MY FEET ARE MAPS by Jenn McCreary

SALTWATER EMPIRE by Raymond McDaniel

RENDEZVOUS by Todd Melicker

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

FAUN FOR A NOON by Edric Mesmer (smart, fresh and lyrical)

THOUSAND TIMES BROKEN: THREE BOOKS by Henri Michaux, drawings and poems translated by Gillian Conoley

THE SELECTED POETRY OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, edited by Nancy Mitford (wonderful, but of course!)

HOME & AWAY: THE OLD TOWN POEMS by Kevin Miller

#!, poetry by Nick Montfort (pleasingly thought-provoking. LPR #130)

THE TRUE KEEPS CALM BIDING ITS STORY by Rusty Morrison (stellar. Language matured like fine wine)

AFTER URGENCY by Rusty Morrison (stellar. Language matured like fine wine)

BEYOND THE CHAINLINK by Rusty Morrison (stellar. Language matured like fine wine)

THE FEEL TRIO by Fred Moten

THE OPEN SECRET by Jennifer Moxley (LPR #159.  Simply?  MAGNIFICENT.)

SONOLUMINESCENCE by Simone Muench and William Allegrezza (an outstanding collaboration between two stellar poets)

SLOWER THAN STARS by Steve Mueske (praise-worthy)

A CIVILIZATION by Fred Muratori

GLITCH by Gwen Muren

NOT FOR YOU ALONE by Robert Murphy (lovely chap. Read chap and listened to CD – the auditory is as fine as the words)

DREAM MACHINE by Sade Murphy

WASHING-UP by Bruno Neiva (an insistent lyricism despite prosaic references. Yes, dears, poetry can be about anything…)

BLUETS by Maggie Nelson (LPR #158)

SPECTACLE & PIGSTY by Kiwao Nomura, Translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander

I AM GOING TO FLY THROUGH GLASS; SELECTED POEMS OF HAROLD NORSE, Editor Todd Swindell

HONEYBEE, poems and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye

GREEN AND GRAY by Geoffrey G. O’Brien

THE SPEED OF OUR LIVES by Grace C. Ocasio

MEANS, poems by Lars Palm (in manuscript. See my blurb for it at http://eileenrtabios.com/with-the-community/selected-reviews-and-engagements/)

MULHOUSE by lars palm (a charming poetry pamphlet)

THIS THING JUST HAPPENED, poems by Lars Palm

HEROES IN DISGUISE by Linda Pastan

BLACK BIRDS: BLUE HORSES, AN ELEGY by Natalie Peeterse

FROM UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY [ GUMA ] by Craig Santos Perez (I don’t know how to type accents so forgive the lack after the “a” in “guma”.  Anyway, late coming to this but worthwhile.  A moving and well-wrought journey.  LPR #145)

AS A BEE by Simon Pettet

SHE, A BLUEPRINT by Michelle Naka Pierce with images by Sue Hammond West

FISHING ON THE POLE STAR by Paul Pines (deft and lovingly done)

MESSAGE FROM THE MEMOIRIST: POEMS by Paul Pines (in manuscript form.  See my blurb for it at http://eileenrtabios.com/with-the-community/selected-reviews-and-engagements/)

DIANA'S TREE by Alejandra Pizarnik, Trans. by Yvette Siegert (moving. Glad to see this  work “recovered” through Ugly Duckling Presse’s Lost Literature Series. LPR #155)

THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF CALIFORNIA by Julien Poirier (excellent)

A DISTURBANCE IN THE AIR by Michele Poulos (a natural)

THE BODY ACHES [POEMS AND HAY(NA)KU by Ernesto Priego (originally published in 2005, it’s now available online.  A chap, but magnificent in its effect. LPR #139)

FATE LINES / DESIRE LINES by Caleb Puckett (fabulously innovative. LPR #112)

MISSING THE MOON by Bin Ramke

DON’T LET ME BE LONELY: AN AMERICAN LYRIC by Claudia Rankine (LPR #160. So good I ordered all her other books.  Many effective leaps: appreciated, for example, a discourse on forgiveness that referenced Timothy McVeigh and William Earnest Henley’s poem “Invictus,” albeit the mention recalled Mom: how Mom and I attended the movie “Invictus” together and she silenced the awed audience of the movie theater when she started reciting along with the poem as it was spoken by Morgan Freeman's character; what a different time—when people were raised memorizing poems…”It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul”)

THE FINNISH ORCHESTRA by Kathryn Rantala (excellent!)

MARILYN, poems/mixed genre by Amanda Ngoho Reavey (fresh.  Read it in manuscript but understand it just found a publisher—happy over the news!)

TWO POEMS by Robert Rehder

SMALL WORKS by Pam Rehm (thoughtful and delicate.  LPR)

A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME THIS FAR: POEMS 1978-1981 by Adrienne Rich

APOSTROPHE by Elizabeth Robinson

HARROW by Elizabeth Robinson

THREE NOVELS by Elizabeth Robinson

ALL MOVIES LOVE THE MOON: PROSE POEMS ON SILENT FILM, poetry/art by Gregory Robinson

HOARD by Jaime Robles (a quiet radiance. LPR #118)

THE AMERICANS by David Roderick

THE DAY OF SHELLY’S DEATH, poems and essay by Renato Rosaldo

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, poems by Muriel Rukeyser (fabulous!  Thanks to John for reminder: Read online at http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/writing/the-book-of-the-dead/)

SOMETHING PERMANENT, photographs by Walker Evans and poetry by Cynthia Rylant

THE MOVEABLE ONES by John Sakkis

NEW AND LATER POEMS by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez

AMBIL by E. San Juan

VIVARIUM by Natasha Saje

ATM by Christopher Salerno (stellar lines)

INTERVAL by Kaia Sand (luminous.  Fabulous.  LPR # 129)

COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan (2nd Edition), Eds. Aram Saroyan and James Hoff (vision-expanding poems, LPR#113)

THE PINK by Jared Schickling

IN LANDS IMAGINATION FAVORS by Don Schofield

DEAR GOOD NAKED MORNING by Ruth L. Schwartz

THE CASTING OF BELLS by Jaroslav Seifert, Trans. From the Czech by Paul Jagasich & Tom O’Grady (I confess I found most of these poems by this Nobel Prize winner to be inert, but don’t know if that’s the poetry or the translation)

SONGS OF S by Robert Seydel (offers much pleasure!)

THE RED HANDKERCHIEF AND OTHER POEMS by Daniel Shapiro

ONE HUNDRED POEMS OF AESTHESIA by G.I. Sheriff

INTER ARMA by Lauren Shufran

RECKLESS LOVELY by Martha Silano

AGAINST CONCEPTUAL POETRY, conceptual poetry by Ron Silliman

THAT LITTLE SOMETHING, poems by Charles Simic

THE ANTIGONE POEMS by Marie Slaight with charcoal drawings by Terrence Tasker

GUANTANAMO by Frank Smith, trans. by Vanessa Place (heartbreaking)

FOR by Carol Snow

OF COLLOCATED RHYTHMS by Felino A. Soriano

THINGS I MUST HAVE KNOWN by A.B. Spellman

IN BOTH HANDS by Joannie Stangeland

HOUSE OF DEER by Sasha Steenesen

MOHAWK-SAMOA TRANSMIGRATIONS by James Thomas Stevens and Caroline Sinavaiana (wonderful)

MIDNIGHT PEACHES, TWO O’CLOCK PATIENCE, poems and prose by Janet Stickmon

THE GREENHOUSE by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

V: WAVESON.NETS / LOSING L’UNA, poems by Stephanie Strickland (Stellar.  LPR #122)

THE GALLOPING MAN AND FIVE OTHER POEMS by Gregory Vincent St. Thomas (fabulous!  LPR #123)

I ATE THE COSMOS FOR BREAKFAST by Melissa Studdard (a poet new to me but thankfully now known. Radiant. Wise. Compassionate. Open. Cerebral. LPR #157)

POEM OF DIMINISHING POETICITY by Angelo Suarez (scalawag daytoy.  Ngem right on met.  LPR #144) 

SOUVENIR by Aimee Suzara (LPR #107)

7 AS FROM A BUFFALO VORTEX by William Sylvester

RING THE SYCAMORE SKY by John Swain

MONOLOGUE OF A DOG by Wislawa Szymborska, Trans. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak

SUN STIGMATA (SCULPTURE POEMS) by Eileen R. Tabios

147 MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML): A HAYBUN by Eileen R. Tabios

44 RESURRECTIONS by Eileen R. Tabios

PUZZLES OF FAITH AND PATTERNS OF DOUBT: SHORT STORIES AND POEMS Edited by Gregory F. Tague

MAO’S PEARS by Kenny Tanemura (pleasingly fresh)

AS WATER SOUNDS by Sunnylynn Thibodeaux (steel with delicacy or delicate steel)

MY RESIGNATION by Maureen Thorson

GEPHYROMANIA by TC Tolbert

AMERISCOPIA by Edwin Torres

THE COMPLETE DARK SHADOWS (OF MY CHILDHOOD, BOOK 1) by Tony Triglio (pleasingly inventive)

NEAR CHANGES, poems by Mona Van Duyn

END OF THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY by Sarah Vap (intelligent. LPR #121)

VISPORTFOLIO, visual poetry by Nico Vassilakis (incredible work!  LPR #153)

THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR MOUTH by Divya Victor

RELIQUARIA by R.A. Villanueva

THROW    N by James Wagner, Poems to Paintings by Bracha L. Ettinger (wonderfully adept. LPR #156)

JAGUAR HARMONICS: PERSON WOVEN OF TESSERAE by Anne Waldman

ALMOST INVISIBLE: DEPOSITIONS FROM THE NETHERLANDS by Craig Watson (part of A THIRD INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS)

A MAP PREDETERMINED AND CHANCE by Laura Weatherington

MUTTER—BABEL by Christine Wertheim (fascinating and lovely word clouds.  LPR #110)

THE RIVER IS RISING by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

WHERE THE ROAD TURNS by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

THE UNKNOWING MUSE by Sarah White

TO THE SOLAR NORTH by Elizabeth Whitehead (part of A THIRD INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS)

THE ODE AT THE GATE OF THE GATHERING by John Wilkinson

EPIGRAPHS, epigraph poetry by Chrissy Williams

TREMENDUM, AUGUSTUM by Leonore Wilson

SOMETHING CROSSES MY MIND by Wang Xiaoni, Trans. by Eleanor Goodman

ARACHNID NEBULA by Mark Young (fabulous vispo courtesy of John M. Bennett’s Luna Bisonte Prods)

ASEMIC COLON by Mark Young (wonderful read and easy sampler for his larger book, THE CODICILS) 

HOTUS POTUS by Mark Young (brilliant manuscript.  So brilliant it’ll be the next published book by Meritage Press!)

THE ECLECTIC WORLD by Mark Young (stellar. LPR  #120) 

HOUSE ON FIRE by Susan Yount

SALSA by Hsia Yu, Trans. by Steve Bradbury (Excellent: the poet has a beautiful brain. LPR #151)

THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN’T CALL ME by Maged Zaher

THANK YOU FOR THE WINDOW OFFICE by Maged Zaher

VIDEO TAPE by Andrew Zawacki

POEMS FROM REDRESS by Hannah Zeavin

I DIDN’T KNOW MANI WAS A CONCEPTUALIST by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde (smart and elegant. LPR #128)

ANTHOLOGIES AND JOURNALS (35)

NOUVEAU’S MIDNIGHT SUN: TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM GOLGONOOZA AND BEYOND, Edited by John Thomas Allen

THE DIFFICULTIES, Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 2, edited by Tom Beckett (six numbers or Volumes of this magazine were published between 1980 and 1989.  They’re now available online at http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/DIFFICULTIES/difficulties.html to present a lovely recovery project.  I plan to read the entire series).

ELEVEN ELEVEN: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND ART (CCAC), Faculty Editor Hugh Behm-Steinberg

TALISMAN: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND POETICS, Issue #42, 2014  (honored to be in its section, “The Occupation: The First of Three Major Selections of Works by and about Women Writers Around the World” edited by Lisa Bourbeau)

SALU-SALO: IN CONVERSATION WITH FILIPINOS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE-AUSTRALIAN WRITINGS edited by Jose Wendell Capili and John Cheeseman

KUWENTO: LOST THINGS : AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW PHILIPPINE MYTHS, co-edited by Rachelle Cruz and Melissa Sipin

NARRATIVE (DIS)CONTINUITIES: PROSE EXPERIMENTS BY YOUNGER AMERICAN WRITERS, Editor Kristina Marie Darling

POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER NO. 241, Editor Ted Dodson

THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER No. 240, Editor Ted Dodson

THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER, April/May 2014

READING THE DIFFICULTIES: DIALOGUES WITH CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INNOVATIVE POETRY, poetics with poems edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan (I loved this. 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)

AUFGABE #13,  Edited by E. Tracy Grinnell, erica kaufman, Jen Hofer and Nathanaelm, Maryam Parhizkae, Jamie Townsend and Zandra Ruiz, including poetry from India and from the Moroccan journal Souffles

VERSE, literary journal edited by Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki

LOVE POEMS FROM GOD: TWELVE SACRED VOICES FROM THE EAST AND WEST featuring Rabia, St. Francis of Assisi, Rumi, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hafiz, St. Catherine of Siena, Kabir, Mira, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and Tukaram, edited by Daniel Ladinsky. (My favorites are the contributions of Meister Eckhart, Hafiz, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila.)

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

THE MARSH HAWK PRESS REVIEW, Spring 2014, Edited by Mary Mackey

YELLOWFIELD #9, Spring 2014, edited by Edric Mesmer

CIVIL WAR POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Paul Negri

SWIRL, Issue 1, e-zine edited by lars palm (lovely!) 

SWIRL, Issue 2, e-zine edited by lars palm (check out Mark Young’s funny zombie poem for Tom Beckett) 

GOLDEN HANDCUFFS REVIEW, Spring-Summer, 2014, edited by Lou Rowan

ECCOLINGUISTICS 2.4, literary zine edited by Jared Schickling

MUDDY RIVER POETRY REVIEW, Spring 2014, edited by Zvi A. Sesling

CALIBAN ONLINE ISSUE #16, Editor Lawrence R. Smith

SKY LANTERNS: NEW POETRY FROM CHINA, FORMOSA AND BEYOND, Edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain

VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A STORM OF FILIPINO POETS, Editor Eileen R. Tabios

THE MARSH HAWK PRESS REVIEW, Editor Eileen R. Tabios 

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 88 Fall 2014, Editor Kenneth Warren

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 87, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren

HOUSE ORGAN, Spring 2014, literary/arts zine edited by Kenneth Warren

POEMS for the TIME CAPSULE, collected by David Watts (a wonderful anthology)

NESTS AND STRANGERS: ON ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN POETS, Editor Timothy Yu with Afterword by Mg Roberts (in manuscript form.  Essays by Sarah Dowling on Myung Mi Kim, Merle Woo on Nellie Wong, Sueyeun Juliette Lee on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Dorothy Wang on Bhanu Kapil.)

WITH OUR EYES WIDE OPEN: POEMS OF THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY, poetry anthology edited by Douglas Valentine

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY Edited by Emmett Williams

THE SPIRIT OF THE SAINTS / EL ESPIRITU DE LOS SANTOS (literary & art journal of St. Helena High School) edited by Peeka Zimmerman (my son’s got a poem innit!)

OTHER GENRES/FORMATS BY POETS (26)

HANNIBAL BARCA C. 259 BCE: A FABLE, art and poetry by Adhemar Ahmad

KENNETH GOLDSMITH IN CONVERSATION with David Jonathan Y. Bayot (it’s a tad yesterday)

IMAGEMS 1, poetics by Richard Berengarten (wise. LPR #148)

CRATER Reading Series poetry chaps/pamphlets (U.K.)

SIXTY MORNING TALKS (interviews with poets) by Andy Fitch

APOPHALLATION SKETCHES: A THEATER OF AFFECTIVE EXTREMES / STRENUOUS ESSAYS FOR THE SENSES by j/j hastain (unique and wonderful)

NOTEBOOKS OF A CHILE VERDE SMUGGLER, poetry/memoir by Juan Felipe Herrera

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

SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS by Kevin Killian, edited by Brent Cunningham (an entertaining read)

DAVID MEDALLA CLOUD CANYONS, prose poetry and art monograph (thanks to Barry Schwabsky for sharing)

3 LETTERS, correspondence/prose poetry by Brian Morse (clever and charming chapette from the Buffalo Ochre Papers)

THERE ARE THINGS WE LIVE AMONG: ESSAYS ON THE OBJECT WORLD by Jennifer Moxley (luminous. LPR #117)

TOWARD THE YEAR TWENTY FIFTEEN, poetry broadside by Sheila Murphy 

THE NOTHING THAT IS, poeticized autobiography/poetics by John Olson (one of the best writers living today in part, I suspect, because of an admirably voracious mind. LPR #114)

Ted Pearson in THE GRAND PIANO, a "collective autobiography" by ten poets.

DARLING: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Richard Rodriguez

ANIMALS VS. FURNITURE, poetic picture book by Normandy Raven Sherwood with illustrations by Jesse Hawley

WHAT POETS ARE LIKE: UP AND DOWN WITH THE WRITING LIFE, memoir by Gary Soto

AN ARMY OF LOVERS, novel by Juliana Spahr and David Buuck

CRUSHING SOFT RUBIES: A MEMOIR by Janet Stickmon  (excellent. LPR #150)

BACK FROM THE CROCODILE’S BELLY, post-colonial, indigenous and intercultural studies with poetry and prose, edited by Leny M. Strobel and S. Lily Mendoza

THE LITTLE BOOK OF HAPTIC DRAWING by Jean Vengua

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

ONE FOOT OUT THE DOOR, short stories by Lewis Warsh

Barrett Wattten in THE GRAND PIANO, a "collective autobiography" by ten poets.

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