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