EPIGRAPHED!

It's rare for many poets to see the impact of their work. So I was heartened (and pleased as punch!) to see one of my poems from a 2006 book, The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I, recently excerpted for an epigraph in a 2014 book, Mg Roberts' debut poetry collection, not so, sea from Durga Press:

I've since read not so, sea and found it wonderful -- I heartily recommend it! I was delighted to acquire it through the recent 3rd Filipino-American International Book Fest (see prior post).  And speaking of books, here's an update on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry or including poetry: 

M TRAIN by Patti Smith

NOT SO, SEA by Mg Roberts

TO LOVE AS ASWANG by Barbara Jane Reyes

COLLECTED VERSE by Nick Joaquin

THE BEAUTY OF GHOSTS by Luis Francia

EVERYDAY THINGS by Fidelito C. Cortes

PRIME TIME APPARITIONS by R. Zamora Linmark

HOLLYWOOD STARLET by Ivy Alvarez

IT’S NO GOOD by Kirill Medvedev

THE PAJAMAIST by Matthew Zapruder

OCCUPIED by Carol Mirakove

MEDIATED by Carol Mirakove

EVERLASTING QUAIL by Sam Witt

ALL HAT, NO CATTLE by lars palm

SIMPLIFIED HOLY PASSAGE by Elizabeth Robinson

SWARM by Jorie Graham

FLIPS 2015: A FILIPINO AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY (a reprint) edited by Serafin Syquia and Bayani Mariano w/ new introduction by Juanita Tamayo Lott

BEYOND LUMPIA, PANSIT and SEVEN MANANGS WILD, edited by Evangeline Canonizado Buell

BURYING THE TYPEWRITER, memoir by Carmen Bugan

LAST [TRANS] MISSION, wordless story by E. Steen Comer and art by Trista Musco