ON MCCRARY'S GOLD

Delighted to have the chance to read a forthcoming book by Jim McCrary, THIS HERE (theenk books).  Here's blurb I provided (with aid of JBR, wink), which I hope gives an idea of the interesting and worthwhile nature of this book:

The obvious gold here include recollections of days with Burroughs, Corso, Acker, Dorn, Blackburn. Less obvious is how the whole reflects the times as they are when it’s likely that 2/3 of humans will be dead in a hundred years, that within the next 30 years there will no mammals in the wild larger than a rat, that the seas will be full of one celled animals and jellyfish, et al. Thus, do we stumble over lines like “Desires for public bombs that go bang on a screen / Then disappear, we think, and thank again for good” or “you better open up and see / you  can bet  in ti fada fada / gonna stand  up over the big / fence you got” or “Page three is lost / Page four is lost.”  Fortunately, there’s poetry here and there’s still a “Page five [that] is spell bound.”

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

THIS HERE, poems by Jim McCrary (in manuscript form; see above blurb)

FLUTES AND TOMATOES: A MEMOIR WITH POEMS by Wade Stevens (smart. LinkedInPoetry Recommendation (LPR) #189)

THERE ARE WORDS, poems by Burt Kimmelman (just wonderful. LPR #184)

TO SEE THE EARTH, poems by Philip Metres (LPR #185)

PASSION, poem by Larry Kearney (ravishing. LPR #186)

WHAT I’VE STOLEN, WHAT I’VE EARNED, poems by Sherman Alexie (brilliantly diverse and discerning. LPR #187)

*  SONG X: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Patrick Pritchett (convincing—thus do I become a fan of this authentic poet. LPR #188)

I LIVE IN A HUT, poems by S.E. Smith (wonderful wonderful wonderful!!!)

*  SOUND/CHEST, poems by Amish Trivedi (energetic textual skitterings that are a pleasure to sound out)

*  COMPOS(T) MENTIS, poetry by Aaron Apps (prescient)

LEARNING ILOKANA, poems by Janice Sapigao (in manuscript. Very kewl)

ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR: WORKS ON PAPER 2002-2004, poems and poetics by Jessica Smith (it’s so nice when intelligence is lovely)

*  ORIGAMI HEART, poems by Andrea Bates (such a lovely vocabulary!)

*  WARDOLLY, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell (smart. Refreshing in its challenges)

*  FARTHER TRAVELER, “poetry, prose and other” by Ronaldo V. Wilson (Powerful self-awareness)

HOLLOW, poems by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Translated from Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim (in manuscript form)

*  THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JIM DINE, Edited by Vincent Katz

*  GRASS ROOTS: SELECTED POEMS by Xiang Yang, Trans. by John Balcom

*  THE COSMOPOLITAN, poems by Donna Stonecipher

*  BLUE HOLE, poems by Kate Colby

*  ERRANCITIES, poems by Quincy Troupe

*  A POETRY OF REMEMBRANCE: NEW AND REJECTED WORKS by Levi Romero

*  THE GILLES POEM: WINTER 2006 COLLECTION by Sabrina Calle

*  NEXUS OF EVIL: LATE FRAGMENTS 1-7, poems by Andre Spears

*  IN FORTUNE, poems in collaboration by Lauren Levin, Jared Stanley and Catherine Theis

*  THE SPOILS, poems by Ted Mathys

*  ROUGH, AND SAVAGE, poems by Sun Yung Shin

*  DOUBLE-EDGED, poems by Susan Terris

*  HOUGH & HELIS & WHERE & HERE & YOU, YOU, YOU, poems by Lea Graham

*  STUDY IN PAVILIONS AND SAFE ROOMS, poems by Paul Foster Johnson

*  SELFISH MONOLOGUES, poems by Andrew J. Jones

*  IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE, poems by Shya Scanlon

*  BECOMING WEATHER, poems by Chris Martin

*  CLEAR ALL THE REST OF THE WAY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1987-2007 by Warren Woessner

*  TEA WITH OSIRIS, poems by Paul West

*  WHERE CURRENTS MEET, poems by Elizabeth Austen

*  EXPOSURE, poems by Carol Stevens Kner

*  IN TIME’S RIFT, poems by Ernst Meister, Trans. by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick

*  IN THE SHADOW OF AL-ANDALUS, poems by Victor Hernandez Cruz

*  ISLE OF DOGS, poems by Sarah Suzor

*  THE WONDER BREAD YEARS, poems by Susan Terris

*  BLOCK PARTY by Susan Terris

*  THE SMALLEST WORKING PIECES, poems by Matthew Nienow

*  THE STORY WILL FIX YOU IT IS THERE OUTSIDE YOUR __ , poems by Emily Carr

*  TRAVELS OF A GWAI LO, poems by Diana Woodcock

*  POPULACE, poetry and portraits by Elizabeth Treadwell

CORNSTARCH FIGURINE, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell

LILYFOIL, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell

CHANTRY, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell

THE MILK BEES, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell

*  CONSULTATIONS WITH BRUJA JUANA, poems by Diana Alvarez

THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING CENTURY, poems by Edward Sanders

LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR, poems by Edward Sanders

*  TRUTH OF MY SONGS: POEMS OF THE TROBAIRITZ, Trans. by Claudia Keelan

*  WITH APOLOGIES TO MICK JAGGER, OTHER GODS, AND ALL WOMEN, poems by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

{M}AGANDA MAGAZINE: CRITICAL MASS, literary and arts journal edited by Nicole Arca

THE SPIRIT OF THE SAINTS / EL ESPIRITU DE LOS SANTOS, 2015 literary and arts  journal of St. Helena High School, edited by Tigerlily Olea

*  MIXING TRACKS, short story chap by Jan Steckel

FIRE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW, short stories by Shawn Vandor

*  ESSAY: A CRITICAL MEMOIR by Donald Revell

PARIS: A LOVE STORY, memoir by Kati Marton

WINES

2012 Gandia “Galizeus” Albarino Rias Baixas

2004 Clare Luce Abbey cabernet NV

1997 Noon Winery reserve cab

2012 Cercius

2011 Domaine Cabirau Serge & Nicolas

2010 Layer Cake cabernet