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You are also invited to visit Marsh Hawk Press' table at AWP to see these new books!
Of course, I recommend all of Marsh Hawk Press' books. And I also recommend a forthcoming book by Susan Schultz, such that I provided a blurb! This will be released by the excellent poetry publisher, Talisman, helmed by the excellent poet Ed Foster! (This blurb is first-draft, unedited.)
Blurb for Memory Cards: Thomas Traherne Series by Susan Schultz:
As each poem by Susan Schultz begins with a line from Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations, the strengths of her poems honor their source, offering a fresh reason for Traherne’s meditations remaining relevant as centuries unfold. Schultz’s poems are prose poems like Traherne’s paragraphs but are located in her and our (as readers) time. Sadly, this means referencing the homeless, “Kabul,” the Walmart worker’s low wages and even “Trump.” Fortunately, Schultz keeps our attention, even on topics that one might wish to bypass, through resonance (“Lavafall at Pahoa’s transfer station; someone lays red petals on its black”), imagery (“loss, like a rope in my stomach, turning to braid”), even whimsy (“Await the typo for that is where tooth lies”), and finally wisdom (“The weed whackers insure an absence of quiet. Quiet must be made; it’s not a taking away but an addition to.”) With their layers, often combined in pleasingly unexpected ways, these meditations—and poems—offer an immensely satisfying read.
--Eileen R. Tabios
Relatedly then, 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
MEMORY CARDS: THOMAS TRAHERNE SERIES by Susan
Schultz (in manuscript; see above blurb)SELECT POEMS by John M. Bennett (I like to read poets’ COLLECTEDS and SELECTEDS. This book shows not only that John Bennett’s lifetime poetic endeavors are worthwhile but that readers are lucky such a book as his SELECTED exists. His SELECTED allows us to see his trajectory and we see a restless, brilliant mind at work in the service of poetry. LinkedIn to Poetry (LPR) #222)
THEY AND WE WILL GET INTO TROUBLE FOR THIS, poems by Anna Moschovakis (distinct and pleasurable. LPR #221)
THE UNFOLDING CENTER, poem by Arthur Sze and art by Susan York plus a conversation with John Yau (so resonant. LPR #218)
MY CHOCOLATE SARCOPHAGUS by Claudia Carlson (moving; delicate and steel at the same time. LPR #216)
THE AHA MOMENT, visual poetry by Márton Koppány (E-ratio Editions, 2016)
(brilliant. LPR #220)
LOST WAX:
TRANSLATION THROUGH THE VOID, poems by Jonathan Stalling with translations by
Zhou Yu, Yao Benbiao, Nick Admussen, Jami Proctor-Xu, Jennifer Feeley, Eleanoir
Goodman, Lucas Klein and Andrea Lingenfelter and sculpture and photography by
Amy Stalling (fabulous example of poetry-in-progress, LPR #219)
GOSSAMER
LID by Andrew Brenza (wonderful enough to blurb! LPR #217)
* A WINGED HORSE IN A PLANE, poems by Salah
Faik, translated by Maged Zaher (really enjoyed this; found it moving and more)
* LEARN TO LOVE EXPLOSIVES, poems by Geoffrey
Woolf (deft and pleasingly energetic with enjoyable twists)
SOME
NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING, poems by Anselm Berrigan (fabulous energy)
ONE BIG
SELF: AN INVESTIGATION, poetry/poems by C.D. Wright
NEGATIVITY’S
KISS, noir poem by Alice Notley
FOX:
POEMS 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich
I MUST BE
LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles
ONE WITH OTHERS
[A LITTLE BOOK OF HER DAYS], poetry by C.D. Wright
SKY
JOURNAL, poems by Hassen Saker
SOME
WORLDS FOR DR. VOGT, poems by Matvei Yankelevich
* STANZAS ON OZ: POEMS 2011-2014 by David M.
Katz
* LATEST VOLCANO, poems by Tana Jean Welch
* THINKING SINGING: SELECTED POEMS OF HANK
LAZER / PENSANDO CANTANDO: POESIE SCELTE DI HANK LAZER with Italian
translations by Anny Ballardini
* AS FAR AS I KNOW, poems by Joseph Somoza
* HOW TO BE ANOTHER, poems by Susan Lewis
* LICHEN LOVES STONE, poems by Jen Crawford
* AWKWARD HUGGER, poems by Timothy Dyke
* ORIGINAL SIN, poems by Michael Daley
* ORPHAN, poems by Joseph Han
* LORD’S OWN ANNOINTED, poems by Kevin Cutrer
with drawings by Rob Fairburn
* OLD BALLERINA CLUB, poems by Sharon Olinka
* THE POND IN ROOM 318, poems by Kip Zegers
* WHERE YOU WANT TO BE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
by Kevin Pilkington
THE
MESHES, poems by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn
HOW WE
BECAME HUMAN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo
NEW YEAR,
TWENTY SIXTEEN, poetry card-broadside by Sheila Murphy
* OVER HEAR: SIX TYPES OF POETRY EXPERIMENT IN
AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND, poetics essay by Lisa Samuels
ERATIO#22, literary journal edited by Gregory St. Vincent Thomasino
* THE UNBEARABLE CONTACT WITH
POETS, prose and interviews by Derek Beaulieu
LIFE IN A TIN CAN: THE REAL PIANOVAN, memoir by Chris Stroffolino
GIRL DRIVE: CRISS-CROSSING
AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM, study/journalism by Nona Willis
Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein
THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE (2014) by The Sitting Room writers
BROKEN VERSE, art monograph by Darrell Nettles
RHYTHM FIELD: THE DANCE OF MOLISSA FENLEY, Edited by Ann Murphy and
Molissa Fenley
INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO by Joe Fig
INSIDE THE ART STUDIO: A GUIDED TOUR OF 37 ARTISTS’ CREATIVE SPACES
edited by Mary Burzlaff Bostic and the editors of AMERICAN ARTIST magazine
THE ACCORDION FAMILY: BOOMERANG KIDS, ANXIOUS PARENTS AND THE PRIVATE
TOLL OF GLOBAL COMPETITION, study by Katherine S. Newman
WINES
2005/6 Peter Michael
chardonnay “Point Rouge”
1996 Domaine Leroy
Clos de Vougeot
2012 Dancing Hares
2003 Villi Schaefer
Spatlese
1990 Ch. D’Yquem
2013
Failla chardonnay Sonoma Coast
1998 Haut
Brion
2007
Peter Michael Ma Belle Fille
1991 Vega
Sicilia
1993
Araujo Eisele Vineyard
2009
Artadi El Carretil
2010 Les
Halos de Jupiter PAR Philippe Cambie Cotes du Rhone
1990 Ch.
Haut-Marbuzet
2010
pinot noir Calera Jensen Vineyard