CAN WE BE PART OF YOUR SUMMER FUN?

I’m working on putting out the next issue of Galatea Resurrects.  Meanwhile, I’ve set the deadline for submission reviews for the next issue to be Nov. 15, 2015.  That means, you schoolsters, you can do a review as part of your summer break! 

And 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. 

PUBLICATIONS

ITSELF, poems by Rae Armantrout (fabulous. LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations, or LPR, #172)

THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, poems by Spencer Reese (fabulous. LPR #171)

ARIANE: A STOCK EPIC, conpo by Angelo Suarez (quite cool)

APPEARANCES: A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS by Tom Beckett (read in manuscript form; it deserves a home)

ALL HAT, NO CATTLE, hay(na)ku poems by lars palm (read in manuscript form; a cool project: it deserves a home)

*  AS A BEE, poems by Simon Pettet (fabulous)

*  BEST WESTERN AND OTHER POEMS by Eric Gudas (wonderful)

THE FACE BEHIND THE FACE, poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Trans. by Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin (contains the MAGNIFICENT poem, “Snow in Tokyo”)

*  CESSATION COVERS, poems by Steve Halle (found this to be a really moving project)

HARD LOVE PROVINCE, poems by Marilyn Chin

LUNETTE, poems by Pamela Davis

FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHT, poems by Louise Gluck

ROME, poems by Dorothea Lasky

REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS, poems by Diane di Prima

EVERY TIME A KNOT IS UNDONE, A GOD IS RELEASED: COLLECTED AND NEW POEMS 1974-2011 by Barbara Chase-Riboud

*  EXHIBIT OF FORKING PATHS, poems by James Grinwis

*  ELECTRICAL THEORIES OF FEMININITY, poems by Sarah Mangold

*  THE GODDESS CAN BE RECOGNIZED BY HER STEP, poems by Sarah Mangold

*  ALONE AND NOT ALONE, poems by Ron Padgett

*  WOMEN IN PUBLIC, poems by Elaine Kahn

*  THE ALL-PURPOSE MAGICAL TENT, poems by Lytton Smith

*  NULL SET, poems by Ted Mathys

*  CUT UP APOLOGETIC, poems by Jamie Sharpe

*  BONNARD’S DOG, poems by Rosalind Brackenbury

*  MARTHA, poems by Leslie Allison

*  HISTORIC DIARY, poems by Tony Triglio

*  OF MONODIES & HOMOPHONY, poems by edric mesmer

PITY THE BEAUTIFUL, poems by Dana Gioia

WINTER FRUIT, poems by Beclee Newcomer Wilson

ELEMENTAL TANKA, poems by Gary Silva

WISTERIA FROM SEED, poems by Jeremy Cantor

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: POEMS OF THE GOLDEN STATE by Richard Alan Bunch

PERFECT WORDS, poems and poetic how-tos by Kay Day

*  HOUSE ORGAN #90, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren

KUWENTO LOST THINGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW PHILIPPINE MYTHS, poetry, fiction and prose edited by Rachelle Cruz & Melissa Sipin

MANGYAN TREASURES / THE AMBAHAN:  A POETIC EXPRESSION OF THE MANGYANS OF SOUTHERN MINDORO, PHILIPPINES compiled, translated and explained by Antoon Postma (fabulous. LPR #173)

I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: LANDAYS FROM CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN, Translated and collected by Eliza Griswold with photographs by Seamus Murphy (fabulous. LPR #174)

PLEASE EXCUSE THIS POEM: 100 NEW POETS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION, edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick

ESSAYS AFTER EIGHTY by Donald Hall (I appreciate his prose more than his poetry.  This one is a good one: LPR #170)

DAKOTA: A SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY by Kathleen Norris

MAN IS WOLF TO MAN: SURVIVING THE GULAG, memoir by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson

TOMORROW’S MEMORIES: A DIARY, 1924-1928 by Angeles Monrayo

THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS, novel by Eric Gamalinda (luminous. LPR #169)

ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS a “dugtungan,” or collaborative novel, by Nadine Sarreal, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Erma Cuizon, Susan Evangelista, and Veronica Montes

THE ART FORGER, novel by B.A. Shapiro

THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY, novel by Gabrielle Zevin

THE ESCAPE, novel by David Baldacci

WINES

1989 Ch. Pichon Longueville Comtesse De Lalande

2012 William Fevre Chablis

2012 Rivers-Marie “Summa” Pinot Noir

1989 Poderi Luigi Einaudi

1990 CNP Clos du Bosquet

2011 DAC Alvaro Castro (Portugal red wine blend)

2008 Quilceda Creek cabernet Columbia Valley

2009 Quilceda Creek cabernet Columbia Valley

Trattoria Del Arte (NYC) House Proseco

2013 Chasing Venus sauvignon blanc Russian River

2010 Tarima Hill

2006 Dutch Henry “Argos”

2007 Dutch Henry “Argos”

2015 Cloudy Bay sauvignon blanc

2007 Ch. De Fieuzal Pessac sauvignon blanc
2012 Cercius (Rhone)