Eileen R. Tabios is a poet working in multiple genres and in-between. She also loves books by writing, reading, publishing, critiquing, romancing and advocating for them. This blog will feature her bibliophilic activities with posts on current book engagements and links to her books and projects related to books.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

BOOKISH, WITH W(H)INE!

Andrew Brenza created a lovely poetry book, GOSSAMER LID, soon to be released!  Here's my (first draft) blurb for it!

Fragments, deliberate incompletions, abstract spaces, sound-based meanings, vizpo—such are not uncommon in contemporary poetry.  But Andrew Brenza brings something fresh to the terrain, and it is up in the air and even outer space.  “Scutum” sums up the strengths of this collection with radiance—“the light here / is a fine dizziness / to semblance a self on / to a towards of / another(’s) knowing” —and an attached visual element of literally connecting dots. With all of its poetic strengths, these poems also wax philosophically to show the richness of light and the various lifescapes desirous of illumination.
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Meanwhile, I love indie bookstores for many reasons, but here's a favorite reason: for carrying my books!

Here's a photo taken by Leny Strobel when she visited Main Street Books in St. Helena:

(You can just see the spines of SUN STIGMATA and AGAINST MISANTHROPY)

And here's a photo I took when I visited Napa Bookmine in Napa!



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Speaking of books, here's 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
GOSSAMER LID, poems by Andrew Brenza (FABULOUS! in manuscript form; see above blurb)

URSULA OR UNIVERSITY, poetic memoir/meditation by Stephanie Young (coming late to this but glad I made it.  Outstanding. LinkedIn Poetry Recommentation #190) 

LEAVING LEAVING BEHIND BEHIND, poems/fictions by Inger Wold Lund (admirably deft)

*  NECROPOLI, poem by Nicholas Manning in VERSE, Edited by Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki (stunning. moving. evocative)

*  BOUNTIFUL INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENLIGHTENMENT, poems and plays by Minal Hajratwala (a lush riot of language)

COOL DON’T LIVE HERE NO MORE: A LETTER TO SAN FRANCISCO, poems and vignettes by Tony Robles (evocative, moving, powerful)

SEVEN FOR BOETTICHER & OTHER POEMS by Rodney Koeneke

MANDARIN PRIMER, poems by Rosmarie Waldrop

BAN EN BANLIEUE, hybrid poetry by Bhanu Kapil

SCHIZOPHRENE, poetry by Bhanu Kapil

*  SENTENCES AND RAIN, poems by Elaine Equi

*  ALKALI, poems by Craig Dworkin

*  SHADOW SHARP MARSH GRASS, poems by Helen Tartar

*  EARLY LINOLEUM, poems by Brenda Iijima

*   EUNUCHS, poems by Michael Thomas Taren

*  HISTORIES OF THE FUTURE IMPERFECT, poems by Ellen Kombiyil

*  GEOGRAPHY OF TONGUES, poems by Shikha Malaviya

*  QUIET CITY, poems by Susa Alzenberg

*  GARMENTS AGAINST WOMEN, poems by Anne Boyer

*  THIS IS THE HOMELAND, poems by Mary Hickman

*  TRAFFICKE, poems by Susan Tichy

*  ACCORDING TO DISCRETION, collaborative poems by Allen Jih and Adam Vines

*  PIGEONS AND PEACE DOVES, poems by Matthew J. Hall

LOVE AFTER THE RIOTS, poems by Juan Felipe Herrera

TWO POEMS by Hugo Garcia Manriquez

BRIGHT AS MIRRORS LEFT IN THE GRASS, poems by Luisa A. Igloria

*  BONE BOUQUET, Spring 2015, literary journal edited by Krystal Languell, Trina Burke, Amy MacLennan and Allison Layfield

*  CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY 60TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, Editor Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I GREET YOU AT THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT CAREER: THE SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI and ALLEN GINSBERG 1955-1997, Editor Bill Morgan

E.E. CUMMINGS: A LIFE, biography by Susan Cheever

LIT: A MEMOIR by Mary Karr

WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS: FIFTY-FOUR VARIATIONS ON VOICE by Terry Tempest Williams

WALKING TO VERMONT: FROM TIMES SQUARE INTO THE GREEN MOUNTAINS—A HOMEWARD ADVENTURE, memoir by Christopher S. Wren

FOR YOU MOM, FINALLY, memoir by Ruth Reichl

GOOD DOG. STAY, memoir by Anna Quindlen

MONSTRESS, short stories by Lysley Tenorio

CITY OF WOMEN, novel by David R. Gilham

SEA GLASS WINTER, novel by Joann Ross

A MOST INCONVENIENT MARRIAGE, novel by Rebecca Jennings


WINES
2013 Olema pinot noir Sonoma Coast
Pellet Estate Pinot Grigio
2007 Ebenezer shiraz
2013 Quail’s Gate “Optima” Okanagan, BC
2014 Inniskillin Ice Wine Okanagan, BC
2010 Tres Picos Borsao Garnacha




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