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.

Saturday, June 3, 2017

I AM, THEREFORE, I READ


I was recently blessed to read Dean Kostos’ upcoming poetry collection. Here’s a blurb:

To bring a poem into the world is to bring the world into a poem. Dean Kostos achieves this marvelous result with well-wrought poems in Pierced by Night-Colored Threads, and it’s all the more welcome because the presented worlds are varied. His poems shall linger in the readers’ memories, such the poem “Unforgotten” which begins, “A child steps from a silhouette of fire, / pleating paper into egrets of flame.” and aptly ends,  / “Dean pleats his ashes into a boy / who emerges, bearing the debt of flame.”

By the way, for blurb geeks, I keep track of my blurbs HERE (scroll down). 


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
PIERCED BY NIGHT-COLORED THREADS, poems by Dean Kostos (in manuscript; see above blurb)

43 Poetry Manuscripts for part of a Poetry Contest

GHAZALS 1-59 AND OTHER POEMS by Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt (outstanding; will most assuredly be among my Top Five Favorite Reads of the Year. LinkedInPoetry Recommendation #267) 

ARK HIVE, poetry by Marthe Reed (in manuscript, FABULOUS!)

WHAT ABOUT THIS: COLLECTED POEMS OF FRANK STANFORD (admirable: a solid voice so that it becomes presence)

SAND OPERA, poems by Philip Metres (powerful and poignant. I expected the power but not the poignancy—great job by the poet)

FRAMEWORK, visual poetry by Andrew Topel (super!)

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, poems by Olivia Stiffler (fabulous)

WHEELING MOTEL, poems by Franz Wright (charismatic work)

FINDING THE RIVER HORSE, poems by Neal Leadbeater (enchanting!)

FANTASTIC CARYATIDS: A CONVERSATION WITH ART by Anne Waldman and Vincent Katz (excellent conversationalists, these two)

STATE OF EXILE, poems by Cristina Peri Rossi, trans. by Marilyn Buck (powerful. A welcome discovery)

POEM OF THE DEEP SONG by Federico Garcia Lorca, Trans. by Ralph Angel

PENCIL LETTER, poems by Irina Ratushinskaya, Trans. by Lynn Coffin, Alyona Kojevnikov, David McDuff, Richard McKane, Blake Morrison, Alan Myers, Carol Rumens, Sergei Shishkoff, Helen Szamuely and Daniel Weissbort

MONITORED PROPERTIES / PROPIEDADES VIGILADAS, poems by Florencia Castellano, Trans. by Alexis Almeida

THE ROU OF ALCH / EL CAM DEL ALCH, poems by Pablo Katchadjian, Trans. by Victoria Coccaro & Rebekah Smith

DISTANT ROAD: SELECTED POEMS OF NGUYEN DUY, Trans. by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung

* GOOD STOCK STRANGE BLOOD, poems by Dawn Lundy Martin

EPISTLES, poems by Mark Jarman

SITES, poems by Soham Patel

MEADOWLANDS, poems by Louise Gluck

THE KINGDOM OF ORDINARY TIME, poems by Marie Howe

HAORI, poems by Luisa A. Igoria

CHANGE, poems by Jorie Graham

MAY/BE, poems by Jill Stengel

From HYPERGLOSSIA, poems by Stacy Szymaszek

EAST SLOPE, poems by Su Shi, trans. by Jeffrey Yang

PARAISO STREET, poems by Irene Suico Soriano

*  BATTLEDORE, poems by Trina Burke

* WHAT WE SAW FROM THIS MOUNTAIN, poems by Vladimir Aristov

*FIFTEEN SECONDS WITHOUT SORROW, poems by Shim Bo-Seon, Trans. by Chung Eun-Gwi and Brother Anthony of Taize

* MOMENTARY STAYS, poems by Ruth D. Handel

* FUGITIVE IN FULL VIEW, poems by Jack Marshall

*  BLOOD AND SURVIVOR, poems by Haley Lasche

* SANS, poems by G.L. Ford

*  DONALD TRUMP IN NORTH KOREA, poems by Jared Schickling

*  THOUSAND STAR HOTEL, poems by Bao Phi

*  SO-CALLED WEATHER, poems by JJ Rowan

*  MEMORIES OF NOTHING, poems by Tom Hibbard

* SUPER UNDONE BLUE, poems by Sarah Anne Cox

* Y,ES & DIARESIS, poems by Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Trans. by Angelos Sakkis and John Sakkis

* ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION, poetry by Elizabeth Workman

* THE GOD GAMES & OTHER VOICES, poems by Kristen Lucia Renzi

*  NEVERTHELESS, #SHEPERSISTED, No. 2, poetry anthology edited by Barbara Jane Reyes

* THE ORANGE MENACE, poems by Daniel Shapiro

*  STOP ARMAGEDDON, poems by Howard Yosha

* PUNTA SPARTIVENTO & OTHER MOBILIZATIONS FOR OUR TIME, poems by E. San Juan, Jr.

* NECROMANCY, poems by Joshua Gage

* KICKING MILEPOSTS IN THE VIDEO AGE, poems by Steve Abbott

ERRATIC FACTS, poems by Kay Ryan

RESTITUTIONS FOR A NEWER BOUNTIFUL VERB, poems by j/j hastain

EASTER SUNDAY, poems by Barbara Jane Reyes

ELSA, poems by Veronica Wong

ATOMS OF MUSES, poems by Timothy Dyke

BY DIAMOND HEAD, poems by Hank Lazer

VIRGINIA OR THE MUD-FLAP GIRL, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell

PLAYING THE FORM, poems by James Maughn

PROPOSED ADDITIONS, poems by Donovan Kuhio Colleps

SISTA TONGUE, poems/ics by Lisa Linn Kanae

MANHATER, poems by Danielle Pafunda

ENTANGLED BANK, poems by James Sherry

FALLING INTO VELAZQUEZ, poems by Mary Kasimor

THE GOOD CAMPAIGN, poems by Amy King

THE EXPERIMENTS [A LEGEND IN PICTURES & WORDS], poems by Rachel May

LEAVES OF CLASS, poems by Kit Robinson

WHERE’S MY RITSPIK, poems by Lynn Young

A TRANSPACIFIC POETICS edited by Lisa Samuels and Sawako Nakayasu, featuring don Mee Choi, Melanie Rands, Jai Arun Ravine, Ya-Wen Ho, Barbara Jane Reyes, Sean Labrador Y Manzano, Eileen R. Tabios, Murray Edmond, Susan Schultz, Craig Santos Perez, Corey Wakeling, Lehua M. Taitano, Stuart Cooke, and Myung Mi Kim 

OTOLITHS #45, literary journal edited by Mark Young

MACHINE DREAMS ZINE edited by Margaret Rhee

OVER HEAR: SIX TYPES OF POETRY EXPERIMENT IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND by Lisa Samuels

BROKEN VERSE, art monograph by Darrell Nettles

LIVING PIDGIN: CONTEMPLATIONS ON PIDGIN CULTURE by Lee A. Tonouchi

THE DIRTY LIFE: A MEMOIR OF FARMING, FOOD, AND LOVE by Kristin Kimball

TENDER GIRL, novel by Lisa Samuels

THE FOREVER MAN, novel by Gregg Hurwitz

SUPPORT AND DEFEND, novel by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney

GUNMETAL GRAY, novel by Mark Greaney

THE OLD MAN, novel by Thomas Perry

SHINING CITY, novel by Tom Rosenstiel

NIGHT SCHOOL, novel by Lee Childs

FATAL, novel by John Lescroart

THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, novel by Shari Lapena


WINES
2015 Huet "Le Haut Lieu" Sec Vouvray
2013 Rene Rostaing Ampodium
Toro Albala Pedro Ximenez "Gran Reserva" Montilla-Moriles
Oremus Tokaji Aszu 5 Puttonyos Tokaj
2014 Wayfarer chardonnay Fort Ross-Seaview Mendocino
2009 Artadi Vinas De Gain
2006 Produttori del Barbaresco
1983 Dow port
1993 Dunn Vineyard petit sirah Howell Mountain NV
1990 Ch. de Fonsalette Cotes du Rhone
2002 Jean Boillot Puligny Montrachet Clos de la Mouchere
1999 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Red
2005 Dom Perignon
2011 Kumeu River Chardonnay Mate's Vineyard
2004 Colgin
2005 Blankiet Paradise Hills Vineyard
1990 Ch d'Yquem
2000 The Malleea Majella
1996 L’Ermita
2001 Faustino I Rioja Tinto Gran Reserva
2016 Frog’s Leap Sauvignon blanc
2001 Pertimali Reserva Brunello di Montelcino
1990 Haut Marbuzet Saint-Estephe
2016 Massican 'Annika' White Blend Napa Valley


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