"...THE GRACE OF THE MAKE-BELIEVE BED"

I read Ted Berrigan’s THE SONNETS this week and was struck by two specific things (in addition to my overall admiration for the work): (1) Alice Notley’s Introduction is among the best introductions I’ve read to a poetry collection … and I know why: the meticulous attention to process and form; and (2) there was this line that I found so erotic/romantic it found its way into a poem I was in the midst of writing: “To the grace of the make-believe bed”…

(That poem, "Big City Cante Intermedio", will be released this coming March by Tattered Pages' Panthalassa Pamphlets.)

Speaking of publications, 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

HEART THREAD, poems by Robert Kelly (the scale of and sustenance from poem is impressive! LPR #251)

UNCREATED MIRROR, poems by Tamas Panitz (pleasingly fresh. LPR #252)

STUDY & OTHER POEMS ON ART by Yuko Otomo (lovely and luminous. LPR #253)

THE SONNETS by Ted Berrigan (lovely poems, AND also perhaps the best Introduction to a poetry book I can recall reading, this by Alice Notley. LPR #254)

MORNING MOON, hay(na)ku poem by Alex Gildzen (enchanting!)

A YEARBOOK, poetry/memoir by Jim McCrary (sharp and poignantly sharp)

*  METEOR SHOWER, poems by Anne Whitehouse (lovely and resonant)

*  POSY: A CHARM ALMANACK & ATLAS, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell (enchanting!)

*  OROPEL / TINSEL, poems by Raquel Salas-Rivera (wonderful!)

LEG GODT, poems by Jeremy Benson (enchantingly quirky)

CELESTIAL JUNK, poems by Jeremy Benson (ditto, as in enchantingly quirky. Benson’s a new discovery for  me and I’m glad to know his poems!)

BREACH OF TRUST / ABUSO DE CONFIANZA, poems by Angel Escobar, trans. by Kristin Dykstra

THE ECSTASY OF CAPITULATION, poems by Daniel Borzutzky

SELECTED POEMS by Geoffrey Hill

CERTAIN MAGICAL ACTS, poems by Alice Notley

BARTER, poems by Monica Youn

NEBULOUS BEGINNINGS & STRINGS, poems by Alicia Cahalane Lewis

WANDERING IN WORD, poems by Kees van Meel

*  SO WHAT SO THAT, poems by Marjorie Welish

*  COMORBID, poems by Ginger Ko

*  KAOLIN OR, HOW DOES A GIRL LIKE YOU GOT TO BE A GIRL LIKE YOU?, poems by Sophie Mayer

*  BECAUSE I CAN SEE NEEDING A KNIFE, poems by Noah Stetzer

THE NIGHT’S BELLY, poems by Sara Tuss Efrik, trans. from the Swedish by Paul Cunningham

*  MAINLAND, poems by Stinne Storm

*  TAIL OF THE WHALE, poems by Alice Sant’Anna, trans. from Portuguese by Tiffany Higgins

*  TO AN AVIARY, poems by Genevieve Kaplan

MINERAL TERPSICHORE, poems by Mark Young

*  DREAMCRASHERS, poems by Susan Terris

VIEWS FROM TORNADO ISLAND, poems by Charles Stein

WATERS OF, poems by Billie Chernicoff

WE WILL SEE THE SCATTER, poems by Jasmine Nikki C. Paredes

VITILIGOD: THE ASCENSION OF MICHAEL JACKSON, poems by Amanda Chiado

GRAMMAR RULSE, poems by Daviel Shy

GRASSHOPPERS BEFORE GODS, poems by Karla Cordero

ALL THE WATER ALL THE WAVES, poems by Kallie Falandays

ADVICE FROM A SIREN, poems by Shari Caplan

SELF IS WOLF, poems by Nicole Oquendo

RULES TO WANT, poems by Melanie Jeffrey

NEEDLE MAKES TRACKS, poems by Dannna Ephland

THE UNREQUITED <3<3 OF RED RIDING HOOD & HER LYCAN LOVER, poems by Courtney Leigh

ECHO THE PILLARS OF NOTHINGNESS, poems by Maleqil Hoque

TRUMPOLINI, poem by Bill Costley 

RAGS, poem by Steve Dalachinsky 

AUGUST, poem by Staajabu

TO MOHAMMED, poem by Henry Bell 

STONES, poem by Shin Yu Pai

ADVICE, POEM BY ROQUE DALTON 

DEAR DARRELL (FORNEY), poem by Ann Menebroker

THE TRUTH, poem by Ted Joans 

SHEEP PIECE, poem by Shin Yu Pai 

TOPOLOGY—ON VISITING THE DISSECTING SUITE, poem by Zoe Venditozzi

FLIGHT OR FIGHT, poem by Clare Archibald 

SHOCK THERAPY: THE WRITING ASYLUM ANTHOLOGY, curated by Michael Riedell

ELEVENELEVEN: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND ART, Issue 21

DUSIE #19: ASIAN ANGLOPHONE EDITION, edited by Cynthia Arrieu-King

LONG LIFE: ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS by Mary Oliver

A VERY EASY DEATH, memoir by Simone De Beauvoir

INFERNO (A POET’S NOVEL) by Eileen Myles

THE FLY TRUFFLER, novel by Gustaf Sobin

WIRED TO ZONE, novel by Skip Fox

MY STRUGGLE, VOL. 5, autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgard

THE RAVICKIANS, novel by Renee Gladman

SONG OF THE YUKON, novel by Trisha Sugarek

FOREIGN AGENT, novel by Brad Thor

THE FACE OF DEATH, novel by Cody McFady

WINES

2013 Fisher Vineyards chardonnay Sonoma

2011 Rostaing Cote-Rotie Ampodium

2014 Vincent Giradin Bourgogne Blanc

2013 Altamura Sauvignon Blanc

2012 Altamura caberneet

2009 Altamura Negro Maro

1990 Sandrone Baroloa Cannubi Boschis

2011 Domaine Des Comtes La Fond Meursault-Porusots

2004 Ch. Latour

2003 Hare’s Chase shiraz Barossa Valley

2004 Henri Boillot Chevalier Montrachet

2001 Vega Sicilia Valbuena

1994 Vega Unico

1995 Vega Unico

1991 Vega Unico

Vega Reserva Especiale Lote No. 019/94 (1970, 1972 and 1974)

1962 Vega Unico

Vega Reserva Especiale 1990 (1968 and 1970)

1946 Toro Albala Don P.X.

1853 Whithams King Pedro Reserve port

Launois Champagne Le Mesnil Sur Oger Grand Cru

2020 Tres Picos

1996 Denis Mugneret Richebourg

2010 Saint Marigold Sonoma Coast Chardonnay

2014 Nicolas Perrin Viognier

2015 Clif Family gewurztraminer, Anderson Valley

2013 Clif Family cabernet, Howell Mountain

2013 Grieve sauvignon blanc, NV

2001 Cuvee Frederic Emile Trimbach

2010 Tres Picos garnacha

2012 Ch. de Beaucastel CNP

2013 Barbera d’Alba Borgogno

2012 Rosso di Montalcino Castiglion Del Bosco